This was basically triggered by this forum post: https://forum.backdropcms.org/forum/how-set-selected-tag-form-select-opt...
As it is currently, you cannot easily add attributes to individual options of select elements, and it requires either a lot of theming work, or to port a module like https://www.drupal.org/project/form_options_attributes. Even with that module, things are not consistent, so we should consider backporting the D8 solution being worked in https://www.drupal.org/node/342316
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Worth mentioning as it was in zulip chat by @yorkshirepudding I just tested and the two work together without issue as long as you don't use the "Exclude comments from Content...
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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