Esc to cancel search is working in Files 3.26 on Ubuntu 17.10. Sebastien please can you mark this as affecting the Xenial series as New? :)
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- 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/1635312 Title: Escape (or similar key) should cancel search and return to folder view Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Nice to have minor feature request: Pressing CTRL+F searching, then pressing CTRL+F again cancels search. Another key that might make more sense by default to cancel the search should be ESC to "escape" from the current sub view. Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS nautilus: Installed: 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5 Version table: *** 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages I'm not sure how key bindings work for these types of things, just coming at this as an end user with expected behavior. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1635312/+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