A user, peternlewis, reported an issue with category search, where category:macro returns “No results found” despite the slug remaining unchanged after renaming the category. codinghorror questioned whether slug search was ever supported, and suggested the issue be treated as a feature request to make search work with category slugs, not just names. cpradio suggested using auto-complete to solve the issue, but peternlewis found that auto-complete only works with the # symbol and not with category:. The discussion is ongoing as to whether this is a bug or a feature request.
I recently renamed my categories, leaving the slugs unchanged (so “macro” changed name to “Macro Library”).
I can with #macro or #"macro library" or category:"macro library".
But category:macro does not work for some reason, gives: No results found.
Was slug search ever supposed to work? I don’t know that this was supported at any point?
Why wouldn’t it be supported?
Then this is a feature request “make search also work with the slugs of categories, not just the names of categories”.
هل حلّ الإكمال التلقائي في البحث هذه المشكلة؟ يمكنك البدء بكتابة اسم الفئة/المعرف (slug) ثم الضغط على مفتاح Tab ليتم تعبئتها بالصيغة الصحيحة…
ومع ذلك، أنا متأكد أن علامات الاقتباس تُربك الإكمال التلقائي؛ فقد اختبرت ذلك على بيئة الاختبار الخاصة بي، وكتابة “#site feedback” متبوعاً بـ tab يحوّلها إلى Contribute > Site feedback
Whether it is a bug or a feature is up to you to decide. To me it is a broken implementation, but if you consider it to be a feature request, that’s fine too.
That does not appear to work with “category:”. I can type “#que” to complete to #questions, but I cannot type “category:que” to complete to category:questions.