When I write an answer, I like to get a particular answer I wrote earlier for reference. But when I go into my activity tab in the profile page, I do not have any way to find out which answer it is. I do not want to favorite all the questions I answered, so it would be a great idea to be able to search through my answers. It will be awesome if it would let me to search for a specific tag or answer I wrote within a specific time-frame.
Something like this:
You can use the main search box for this, with the search query user:me is:answer <query>.
For example, this search should return all of your answers tagged php on Stack Overflow. For additional advanced search options, check out the advanced search help.
user:me is:answer hasaccepted:no, and it only showed my own questions. If I add isaccepted:no instead, it returns a list of my answers that weren't accepted, but includes answers from questions that do have some other accepted answer.
Enter in the search:
user:<your user id> is:answer TVP
For example, my user id is 61305, so to search for "TVP" in my answers only:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A61305+TVP+is%3Aanswer
Your user id is 40521, so to search for "foo" in your answers only:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A40521+foo+is%3Aanswer
As for date range, doesn't look like it. They're not mentioned on the advanced search options, and this question seems to imply the ninja stuff is missing date range queries too, but offers some potential workarounds.
