Re: Removal of type-ahead find

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 08/02/2012 03:34 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> For this reason, to remove the type-ahead find facility without
> providing a replacement (hopefully superior) mechanism to fill the
> need for easy movement while browsing would be a significant regression
> in functionality. I'll have to think a bit about what such a mechanism
> would look like, but this is something that should be seriously
> considered before moving forward with removal of the existing solution.
As far as I can understand from the blog post (I unfortunately don't 
have a recent enough jhbuild) the search will now act upon either on the 
current folder or globally as seen in the screenshot [1] and should be 
quickly accessed ctrl+f.
1. 
http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/files/2012/08/Screenshot-from-2012-08-01-19_19_14.png

For your particular use case, it sounds like the new functionality will 
cover that (and actually improve it), but I'm sure there are details 
that needs to be worked out.
- Andreas