=New widget: interactive searchbox. Use our own interactive-search box to get it.=
Introduced in Gramps 4.2.0 (mentioned on Whats New page )
# more efficient (binary search on sorted columns).
# customizable (delayed by 150ms launch of search to avoid text scrambling)
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_What%27s_new%3F#GUI
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Navigation#Finding_records
https://gramps.discourse.group/t/where-is-the-find-box-code/2505
https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/master/gramps/gui/widgets/interactivesearchbox.py
Press Ctrl-F to open the searchbox on any of the list or just give the list focus (select a line) and start typing
* 150ms is 0.15 seconds ( quarter of a second)
** Whats new mentions the timing is customizable ; so 1000ms is 1 second ( [https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/48fa8f33052aca542324143a448fc16d60535ed1/gramps/gui/widgets/interactivesearchbox.py#L59 line 59 shows: _SEARCH_DIALOG_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT = 150] and changing that works!
If nothing is typed then after 5 seconds ( 5000ms ) the box goes away ( _SEARCH_DIALOG_TIMEOUT = 5000 )
