How to disable the small search window showing up when I type a letter to search on



I am using Nautilus 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.

What I normally like to do, if I am searching for all items in a directory that have names that start with say the letter 'A' is the following:
Suppose I have an item (a file or a directory) called Acd and another 
called Anr.
Then when I type 'A' into the window itself, I see that selection jumps 
to Acd. good. Now what I want is to type 'A' again, but have the 
selection jump to the next item in that directory which also starts with 
'A'.
Now what happens, is that the little search window comes up, and it 
consumes everything I type, and I see  'AA' in that window, which is not 
what I want. So, I am not able to jump to the next item in the directory 
which happens to start with the letter 'A'.
I want to DISABLE this feature, so that I can type one letter on the 
keyboard, and the file manager will move its selection to the next item 
which starts with that letter. (if there is another item, otherwise, 
nothing should happen).
This is btw how the file manager Dolphin works in KDE, I just tried it. 
And this is also how the file manager I was using on windows works.
If I want to search for files, I could always use the EDIT->Search option.

So, is there a way to make Nautilus behave as I described? type a letter, but NOT have the search window jump in the way?
thanks
--Nasser


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