Re: [PATCH] <shift>+<return> does not work while typeahead find is active

[Eloy Paris <peloy chapus net>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:

> I generally try to use the keyboard to navigate folders in nautilus as 
> much as possible since it's faster than reaching for my mouse.  One of 
> the quickest ways to navigate with the keyboard is to use the 'typeahead 
> find' feature to jump quickly to the directory you want.  I use the 
> spatial browsing mode, so I often want to close the parent windows when  
> opening a new folder (e.g. use <shift>+<return> to open the new folder).  
> However, pressing <shift>+<return> does nothing while typeahead find is 
> active.  So I need to manually dismiss the find entry before opening the 
> window, which slows me down significantly.  For quite a while, this has 
> been my biggest annoyance with nautilus so I finally decided to try to 
> fix it.  I have attached a patch with a potential fix to bugzilla.  As 
> mentioned in the HACKING file, I'm sending a message to the list so that 
> it doesn't get lost in all of the bugzilla traffic.  You can fine it 
> here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579551.  I'd appreciate 
> any input.

Thanks for this fix - this issue has annoyed me for a while too. I think
it wasn't always broken since I believe that at some point it used to
work.

I see that Alex committed the fix. Excellent! :-)

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-