That is to say, when the plugin is installed, you can click in the message list window and start typing. Mail will match on the first occurrence of what you type just as finder does (you can jump to additional matches using the Control+down arrow or up arrow keys). It’s quick. After you have used it for a while, it could become second nature. Nice.

It’s now a universal binary, so Intel Mac users can benefit from the speedy matching too.

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