How can I enable the old type-ahead feature found prior to nautilus 3.6?

Created by Bruce Pieterse
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nautilus type-ahead search enable
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Bruce Pieterse

You can enable the old type-ahead feature that was available in nautilus prior to 3.6 with dconf-editor or gsettings:

1. Install dconf-editor with sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
2. Open dconf-editor
3. Navigate to org.gnome.nautilus.preferences or search (CTRL+F) for "enable-interactive-search"
4. Check enable-interactive-search

Alternatively you can use the command line and enable it with:
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true