At this point, I have answered quite a few questions on physics.SE, and it would be very helpful to have the ability to search them. Is there a way to restrict the physics.SE native search to only my answers? If not, has adding such functionality been considered thus far?
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Yep, just include user:me in your search query. You can also use something like user:19976 to restrict the results to any particular user's posts, where 19976 should be replaced by the ID of the user.
If you want to restrict your search to only answers (as opposed to questions and answers), you can also include is:answer.
There are several other search operators that you can see by doing a search and looking at the right side of the results page for "Advanced Search Tips". (Or see here.)
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$\begingroup$ What if you don't know the user's id? Searching
user:Dimension10, for example, doesn't seem to work . $\endgroup$ – Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir Aug 3 '13 at 10:58 -
$\begingroup$ @Dimension10 You can easily find the user ID by looking at the URL for their profile page. For example yours is
http://physics.stackexchange.com/users/23119/dimension10and so your user ID is23119. You can't do this search by user name (in part because user names are not unique). $\endgroup$ – David Z♦ Aug 4 '13 at 2:14 -
$\begingroup$ @DavidZ: I know that, but I meant like, without checking the url . It's impossible , right ? . $\endgroup$ – Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir Aug 4 '13 at 6:13
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1$\begingroup$ @Dimension10: The user ID is not shown anywhere other than in URLs, if that's what you're asking. $\endgroup$ – David Z♦ Aug 4 '13 at 13:25
