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Regarding search, something that always trips me up in Nautilus is the find as you type feature, which I also love. If you are in the folder list and you start
by progrock 14y ago
Regarding search, something that always trips me up in Nautilus is the find as you type feature, which I also love.
If you are in the folder list and you start typing - you can select folders. Say you start typin P-i-c, it will select say your Pictures file or folder. I then go to copy the folder but I'm still in the find as you type box, but I don't notice. I move to another folder view and paste, and find I have done nothing. Then have to navigate back to where I just was. To get around it you have to hit escape first before the copy. I'm aware of how to do it correctly - but I repeatedly trip myself up.
The other issue is the text find tool overlay is hidden in the bottom right hand side of the window, which seems to sometimes escape your eye. And the interface then feels non-responsive. Love the feature, but there's something amiss in the interface.
If you start to type the name of a folder, and it matches something, hitting return will open that folder, which is great, but is slightly out of tune to trying to use say CTRL + C (which copies the text you are typing in the selection box.) The latter is something that you might want to do - not that I have ever done it. But there are two conflicting behaviours here.