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Support type ahead for fast browsing

Xavier Claessens requested to merge xclaesse/nautilus:type-ahead into master 
Searching is too slow when fast browsing directory tree. Even when
recursing searching is disabled, it still takes time to load the new
view and it breaks the browsing work flow.

The use-case is when user has a very well known tree and want to open a
file, for example "sources/nautilus/src/meson.build", they would type
*VERY* fast: "s" <enter> "n" <enter> "s" <enter> "m" <enter>. When going
many times per day into the same location, it becomes muscle memory,
just like tab in a terminal.

This is similar to how at least Windows file browser works.

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