Category:slug search does not work

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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.

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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”.

¿La autocompletar en la búsqueda resolvió el problema? Puedes comenzar a escribir el nombre o slug de la categoría y presionar la tecla Tab para que se complete con la sintaxis correcta…

Sin embargo, apuesto a que las comillas están interfiriendo con la autocompletar. Lo probé en mi entorno de pruebas y al escribir “#site feedback” seguido de Tab, se transforma en Contribute > Site feedback

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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.