This was brought up in #2306, and is a sibling feature request to #3530 and #3648.
We should ship core with a layout that uses user/% as context, since it is easier for beginners to tweak layouts rather than having to create them from scratch.
GitHub Issue #:
3531
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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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