@Sebastien: This is only partially correct - when searching for <firstname> <lastname>, hitting space in the search jumps to the fist occurrence of <firstname>, but what if you wanted another result? So entering <space> breaks the search.
The desired outcome would be that only <enter> would descend into the directory after the correct search result was found.
If <space> interrupts the search, the search is rather useless that way.
@Sebastien: This is only partially correct - when searching for <firstname> <lastname>, hitting space in the search jumps to the fist occurrence of <firstname>, but what if you wanted another result? So entering <space> breaks the search.
The desired outcome would be that only <enter> would descend into the directory after the correct search result was found.
If <space> interrupts the search, the search is rather useless that way.