@Ajay: That's a rather subjective opinion! Search will always get slow on huge 
folders. Because of the technical nature of type-ahead it is still fast even on 
huge folder contents. When I use type-ahead it takes me less than 1 second to 
choose and enter a folder.
I know my folders and their subfolders, I'm dependent on the speed of 
type-ahead because I use a chain of multiple letter and enter key strokes to 
navigate through many folders in a second. If type-ahead would be replaced by 
search, the speed of search results would depend on the folder's content size 
and I would not be able to use my quick chain of key strokes anymore due to the 
irregular response time of the search.
I admit, this is a rather subjective opinion as well! But type-ahead has been 
there for years, it is also integrated into the file managers of OS X or 
Windows and into the majority of the Linux ones. Your solution mentioned might 
be an improvement for _some_ people. But that doesn't mean it should replace 
type-ahead. It could be added as an optional feature that can be activated 
within the settings. Linux software in general is about configuration & 
customization - not about claiming you know what is best by forcing your 
opinion on others and killing features. The latter is exactly what happened to 
nautilus and why we have this long discussion here.

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