# Show latest PMs when searching in:private @usermention
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [12 ביוני, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381 "2017-06-12T20:21:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [12 ביוני, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/1 "2017-06-12T20:21:40Z")
I used to be able to type in something like the following, and it would show the most recent PMs between me and that person:
Maybe this was never an intentional feature, but this no longer works. I now need to type in a word for the search to work.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/2 "2017-06-13T01:26:12Z")
Should this work @sam?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/3 "2017-06-13T14:13:51Z")
Hmm … this extends beyond …
```plaintext
@sam #support
```
Does not work as well… I wonder if something regressed here, will bookmark…
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/4 "2017-06-13T14:40:40Z")
@erlend_sh any idea when it’s started ?
Wild guess: [FIX: Strip zero-width characters from search terms. · discourse/discourse@684b05f · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/684b05f510f2df1901cee7bd63b0c44aaf972d16)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/5 "2017-06-13T14:45:14Z")
Nahh I think this also relates to magic `@` handling @cpradio added a while back there was another topic about it.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/6 "2017-06-13T14:49:25Z")
I’m not sure why, all I did was permit the auto-complete to show. It still fills out the input box the same, just less user interaction. The above scenarios fail to return anything even if I type a space after auto-complete, which either means, it isn’t sending the query, or the server-side is failing to return anything/process the search (which wasn’t touched with auto-complete)
It could be though, but I don’t recall doing any trim or what-not, but that was months ago.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 ביוני, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-latest-pms-when-searching-in-private-usermention/64381/7 "2017-06-13T14:56:44Z")
No worries, I will debug this … got it bookmarked.