# Is it possible to configure the length that triggers short search term?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2016 年11 月 25 日 10:06 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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作者： ![Rob\_Nicholson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rob_nicholson/32/63483_2.png) [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)\
发布日期： [2016 年11 月 25 日 10:06 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")

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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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