Part of #1332 (end perhaps #151)...
Now with Views in core, we should explore the idea of taking advantage of it and convert the search to a view with exposed filters.
This would allow people to either directly edit the default Search view in order to tweak it to their liking or clone it and create other search views.
It would also expand the ways of extending it with contrib modules that improve the backend (search API) as well as modules that improve the UI (Views).
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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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