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		leppr on Aug 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elementary OS 6 Odin > Ubuntu [...] never does anything I don't expect. Especially when it comes to finder/explorer/nautilus. You expect typing letters while having the file explorer window focused to launch a full recursive file search?

turbocon on Aug 10, 2021 [–]

For what it's worth, I discovered this feature on accident because I naturally expected it to do that.

leppr on Aug 11, 2021 | [–]

Interesting expectation given that on Windows, OSX and the other Linux file explorers I've tried, typing selects from the list of files in the current folder, with a behavior similar to an HTML "select" element.

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