diff --git a/src/editor-preferences-dialog.ui b/src/editor-preferences-dialog.ui
index b55c64a21a352a9dc41ba84e3aba5f791886b192..fc30de73372aa87c198f224ed1547092e964e7a4 100644
--- a/src/editor-preferences-dialog.ui
+++ b/src/editor-preferences-dialog.ui
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
     <property name="content-height">700</property>
     <property name="width-request">360</property>
     <property name="height-request">294</property>
+    <property name="search-enabled">True</property>
     <style>
       <class name="org-gnome-TextEditor"/>
       <class name="preferences"/>
     </style>
-    <property name="search-enabled">false</property>
     <child>
       <object class="AdwPreferencesPage">
         <child>