How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later? [duplicate]

Gnome decided to remove the navigation feature type-ahead and replace it with search. They fail to see this is a big problem for many users.

Up until Ubuntu 17.10 Canonical provided a patched version of Nautilus that retained this feature. This is not the case anymore and type-ahead is gone for good.

You are of course welcome to join the Nautilus mailing list and state your reasons why this feature is still needed. I don't see much use in that, though. One of the maintainers told me "This has been discussed to death and we have likely heard all the arguments."

Woohoooo! There is a brand new modified version of Nautilus.

See https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nautilus-typeahead

I've been waiting for a long time before I find this feature again. Hope that Nautilus developers will consider adding it as an option in the app.

I've participated to long debates with the Nautilus developers and we were not able to be convincing enough to have this feature as it was before. The only response was that it was going to be improved in the future.

I like Nautilus but this change made it unusable for me. That drives me crazy.

My solution is simple: switch to another software. I now use Nemo which is fork of Nautilus.