Jumping to the file beginning with the typed letter is NOT the best behavior.
Searching all the folders and subfolders when something is typed is also not the best behavior. THE BEST BEHAVIOR IS: Searching all the folders and subfolders when something is typed is the best behavior given a toggle button to enable/disable subfolder search. If subfolder search is disabled only current folder will be searched. This amalgamates best feature of both sides. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164016 Title: restore type-ahead find Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “ubuntu-settings” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: GNOME removed type-ahead find in Nautilus 3.6, not without controversy: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus- list/2012-August/msg00002.html Now when you type in a Nautilus window, Nautilus immediately performs a search in the current directory and all its subdirectories. I personally find this annoying. If I want to search, I'll click the search icon. Often I'm looking at a long directory listing and simply want to jump to a certain point in it, and type-ahead find works great for that. Would Ubuntu consider patching type-ahead find back in? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1164016/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp