Questions tagged [tag-search]
Refers to the ability to search within specific tags from the global search box by using [tag-name]
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Tag searches return about half the required results and shows about double the total
Steps to reproduce:
Click on a tag.
Check how many results you have set per page: 15/30/50.
Count the number of results you see on the page.
Expected: assuming the total results are greater than the ...
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Doing a tag search and changing the sorting via the navigation buttons breaks queries with operators
Steps to reproduce:
Enter a search query that contains binary operators. A single "or" operator is enough: for Meta Stack Exchange, you can use [bug] or [discussion].
Try to click on the ...
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Synonyms seem to behave differently when searching for them
Usually, if tag [a] is a synonym of [b] then searching for [a] will only return a search for [b]. Because, for all intents and purposes, they are the same tag and the synonym direction determines one ...
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What, if any, is the purpose of duplicate [maintenance] tags in the search results linked from the banner indicating the site is in read-only mode? [duplicate]
The page from the link inviting one to search our recent meta posts on the topic has two maintenance tags.
Is this a bug, or deliberately status-by-design? If the latter, what is the purpose of ...
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Search posts with specific combination of tags
Let’s say I want to obtain a list of all topics that have tags [x] & [y], but not [z].
For example, let’s say a topic has the below tags [x] & [y]. Then I should have this topic in my search ...
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Filtering for "[tag-a] AND [tag-b]" only offers updates for [tag-b] [duplicate]
Description
When searching for an intersection of tags [tag-a] AND [tag-b] or the equivalent [tag-a] [tag-b] the search results show questions tagged with both the tags. When the order of results is ...
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How can I limit search results to questions with exactly five tags?
Given that the limit on the number of tags is five, there is a possibility that a question that uses all five tags may not be using the best choice of tags for others to locate that question at a ...
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Why does this question show up in the [developers] search results?
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The tag has been burned; the locked question is no longer on the list.
Or maybe that should be, "Questions with mod-removed tags show up on that tag's search results"...
I went and ...
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Front page is not loading - tag search error [duplicate]
The front page of Chinese Stack Exchange wasn't loading yesterday for a good five minutes with the following error message:
It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an ...
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Display the number of question for tag synonyms in the tag search, or indicate it is a tag synonym
For example, the tag washing is a synonym of cleaning on https://cooking.stackexchange.com, but when searching for washing on https://cooking.stackexchange.com/tags it says the tag has 0 questions (vs....
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Is there a way to search using more advanced notation?
First, I want to note that I've read the Search Help. What I am looking for is a way to group tags together into more advanced boolean statements. For example, I would like to run the following ...
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Tapping the back button clears search query and results [duplicate]
After searching question by tag and opening a result, tapping the back button is clearing the tag used to query and the results.
Reproduce: tags → [tag] → tap a question → tap on the ...
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Searching for questions which only contains selected tags and nothing more
How do I search for questions which only contains selected tags and nothing more?
For example, I need to see the question of which tags are only [c#] and [Winforms]. If I search for [c#] and [...
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Separate each tag in its own quotes
While searching for the posts with multiple tags on the right hand side of the page you can see the "Related Tags" section:
Is there a way to separate each tag in its own quotes like in the ...
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"Tag plus something else" search looks ugly on beta sites when the tag wiki excerpt contains the tag name [duplicate]
Searching for a [tag-name], plus some other criteria, results in an ugly tag information box which seems to show HTML tags treated as text, rather than as HTML.
Here's an example: search Writing for [...
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When searching with a tag, tag info displays twice [duplicate]
When searching with a tag, for example [c++] test, the C++ tag information displays twice:
This is reproducible for me on both Chrome and Edge, but only on Stack Overflow, not on beta sites or ...
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Increase the tag search input box length according to maximum allowed tag length
Currently the tag search input box on the tag page is too short:
I suggest to increase the size of this input according to maximum allowed tag length. There is a lot of horizontal space to do this ...
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Searching for not a tag broken
I'm a weird person, looking on codegolf.stackexchange.com for the rare questions not labelled [code-golf].
I type '-[code-golf]' into the search box and get results found containing "-[code-golf]" ...
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Tags with "+" in them broke recently
It seems that the parsing of tags with plusses (+) in them broke recently. This is very inconvenient for topics like C++.
See these questions tagged with c++: "[c++]".
Now, if you select another tag ...
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Tag search bar not working in mobile version of Stack Overflow
I want to filter questions based on some tag that I enter in the search bar in the Tag section of the mobile version of Stack Overflow. But when I write my tag name inside the search bar & hit ...
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Can you list only the questions in tag search in the iOS app?
Using the Stack Exchange iOS app 1.6.6.2 05/26/2017. I want to list only the questions (no answers) as the result of a tag search.
By default both questions (Q:) and answers (A:) are returned. For ...
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Is there any option to save a filter in Stack Overflow?
I would like to save a filter (i don't want to type it every time) like this:
[javascript] -[html] -[css] -[angular] -[jquery] -[d3.js] -[android] -[webview] -[angularjs]
Is it possible in stack ...
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Is there a way to show last month top questions for a tag?
I can get the month's top questions on a page like this: https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month
Or the top questions of all time tagged 'C' here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c
Can I ...
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Search for question with exclusively certain tags [duplicate]
How do I search for questions that only have certain tags. For example:
If I search [python] the search will come up with any questions that have python as one their tags. This search would show ...
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How to do A or B not C in new nav tag filters?
I'm trying to set up a tab showing latest questions tagged with A or B but not C, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get this to work?
Some things I've tried:
[A] [B] not [C] shows everything (...
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