# Two-letter in topic search does not seem to work

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-letter-in-topic-search-does-not-seem-to-work/42409>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [April 12, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-letter-in-topic-search-does-not-seem-to-work/42409 "2016-04-12T00:09:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-letter-in-topic-search-does-not-seem-to-work/42409/6 "2016-04-12T00:27:36Z")

</div>

Hmm, @sam for in-topic search (because it is already so tightly scoped) should we relax the minimum search characters allowed to 2 instead of 3? I can confim that I can find “see” in this topic but not “to”.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-letter-in-topic-search-does-not-seem-to-work/42409)._