# Is it possible to configure the length that triggers short search term?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [11월 25, 2016, 10:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359 "2016-11-25T10:06:51Z")
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)
#### Post date: [11월 25, 2016, 10:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/1 "2016-11-25T10:06:51Z")
When searching a specific topic alone - somebody said “As Chris said” in the topic and I didn’t recall their being a Chris in there so I wanted to search on it. Understand requiring a longer search when searching the entire forum.
Is this configurable?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [11월 25, 2016, 10:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/2 "2016-11-25T10:24:53Z")
You want to change the “`min search term length`” site setting 😉
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)
#### Post date: [11월 25, 2016, 3:08오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/3 "2016-11-25T15:08:20Z")
Is that a site wide setting? Would prefer it to just effect local topic searches.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [11월 25, 2016, 3:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/4 "2016-11-25T15:12:36Z")
It is a site wide setting (ie. works for all types of search).
If you want to search on the current topic, you can also press CTRL/⌘ + F twice and use the browser’s default search.
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### Author:  [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2016, 7:38오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/5 "2016-12-04T19:38:59Z")
Does Ctrl-F require you to scroll to the very last post in order to download all the posts?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2016, 8:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/6 "2016-12-04T20:17:51Z")
No, on long posts, Discourse will use its in-topic search when you press CTRL+F, you can press it again to get the browser one, which would be limited to what is loaded in the dom. The Discoruse in-topic search is not limited to what is in the DOM.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [4월 5, 2019, 3:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/7 "2019-04-05T15:43:59Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5월 5, 2019, 3:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-length-that-triggers-short-search-term/53359/8 "2019-05-05T15:44:02Z")
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