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Refers to the ability to search within specific tags from the global search box by using [tag-name]

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Why doesn't searching "vim" or "vim]" automatically switch to questions tagged "vim"?

If you want to search any question containing "vim" you search for "vim"; if you want to look for any question tagged vim, you search for "[vim]." Maybe the search code was more permissive before, an …
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