Should search limited to category also search subcategories?

This is now supported as per this change by @sam

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/df8f365d999e113615c51efee4cfa3115c267783

So:

To search #howto and all sub categories use

something #howto

OR

something category:howto

To restrict it so you only search the category #howto without children use:

something #=howto

OR

something category:=howto


We still need to decide what to do about the “search this category” checkbox.

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