In-topic search: Is that possible to relax the minimum search character to 2?

[Jiaqi (Jiaqi Li)]

Hi guys, I want to ask one question:

For in-topic search, is that possible to relax the minimum search characters allowed to 2 instead of 3? Currently I can search words with 3 characters such as “she”, “who”, “CEO” but not possible to search words like “to”, “on”, “he”.

I checked some topics here to find answer, but I failed.

Do you guys know about this?

Thanks a lot

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

You may want to check out this topic (but it is closed, preventing posts)

Two-letter in topic search does not seem to work

I was using a Discourse forum today and needed to find a specific piece of text on the page, so I did a Ctrl-F, which activates the built-in browser page search (at least in all the browsers I use regularly). For some reason Discourse blocks the use of Ctrl-F. Instead of getting the browser page search dialog, it presented me with what looked like a Discourse-specific search dialog. That in itself would not be too bad if it actually worked. So I went ahead and typed the characters I needed to fi…

@codinghorror posted about lowering in topic search from 3 to 2, but I don’t think it ever happened. You can always use your browsers find tool (type Ctrl + F twice), but that will only work on shorter topics as long topics don’t have every post loaded at all times.

Two-letter in topic search does not seem to work

Hmm, @sam for in-topic search (because it is already so tightly scoped) should we relax the minimum search characters allowed to 2 instead of 3? I can confim that I can find “see” in this topic but not “to”.