# Search is limited per-post instead of per-topic?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [2015 年5 月 29 日 14:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418 "2015-05-29T14:53:29Z")\
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发布日期： [2015 年5 月 29 日 14:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418/1 "2015-05-29T14:53:29Z")

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Suppose I have a topic where a user named `blah` asks a question, and later I reply “you should use `someFooMethod`”

Suppose I want to find this topic later, where this user has asked a question. I remember the user and I remember what I said, so I do a search for:

> user:blah someFooMethod

I would expect to see the topic in the search results, but instead I see no results.

This seems to be because search is only searching individual posts, instead of searching all the text in each topic, so it does not find the topic where user `blah` asked a question and I gave `someFooMethod` as the result.

Is there a way to make search look at the entire topic text to match its query instead of just looking at individual posts? I think most forum searching software would find the topic I am looking for with my query.

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