In the pre-5.x client there were two "views." The top view was the search view and the bottom view was the list of files you were downloading. You could resize the views by moving the sizing bar between the views.

If you had a long list of files in both views you could click on any file in the view you wanted to search and then start typing. Pressing "T" (for instance) would bring you to the first file in the list starting with "T". If you then pressed "e" you would be taken to the first file in the list starting with "Te" (e.g. Test.txt). You could keep pressing letters to jump to the file you were looking for.

That was a very handy feature in the pre-5 Limewire client for searching long lists of files in either search windows or the download view. I hope that is enough explanation to clarify how the pre-5 client worked. I do not know if this was available in pre-4 clients but I used it regularly in a number of the 4.x clients.

In the 5 client pressing alpha keys in any view doesn't appear to do anything and there's no way to search within a view (either search results or download) that I have found. You are forced to slowly scroll down the list of files. You can hit ctrl-F and a "Find" window pops up but it appears to be non-functioning. I tried using very obvious values and even values (portions of file names) displayed on the screen and it always fails saying value not found.