I, too, am running 8.04 and my Nautilus is 2.22.5.1

You're correct about "View -> Visible Columns".

The only way I can see to get the full path is to right click on
each found file and select "Properties"; the "Location:" has the
full path which can be copy'n'pasted as required, but then you
need to still copy'n'paste the filename, too. Painful.

The File -> Save Search As ... only saves the search query, not
the results.

I don't see anything else or another way to get the search results
into a file.

I've been using the Properties
menu, but it's a PITA when trying to chase down a missing #include
file in a search result with a dozen files with identical names.

I guess I'll have to check out some other file managers like
konqueror, rox, or xffm.

I installed konqueror, and it does show the pathnames.

Hmmm, sounds like a good reason to have both Gnome and KDE on the
system so one can use utilities from both. :-)

Better would be for Nautilus to also display the full pathname; surely
it had to know it to perform the search, so why doesn't it display by
default?

The Nautilus manual shows a pathname.
www.linuxselfhelp.com/.../nautilus.html

Nautilus is a file manager and more. It is also a browser and an ftp client. If
you don't have any location bar then you aren't in the browser. You can launch
it from the terminal by typing nautilus --no-desktop --browser. In the browser
you get a path just above the main file display window. You can change it from
icons to text mode by clicking on the icon at the left which shows a text editor
graphic. In text mode you will see the full path name and in the icon mode you
only see the icons of your location like home or Desktop.

If you don't have the browser launch when you start Nautilus you can make a
launcher for it with the above command or edit your menu to reflect the change
you want to make.

That's a good reference; I just created a PDF of its contents. :-)

Just found the solution: though I had the "location bar" displayed, it
didn't show the full path (e.g., just "thad" instead of "/home/thad").

There's a button to the left of the location bar that toggles between
"button and text-based location bar". "Text-based" shows the path.

If anyone wants a copy:

<http://thadlabs.com/FILES/Nautilus_manual.pdf> [485 KB]

I like your idea of creating pdf files of good web pages or
howtos. Just a quick question... When exporting from OO is there any
settings that need to be set? There are 4 tabs of settings. One that I
noticed was Create PDF form, submit format. My format was defaulted to
FDF.

I was wondering where you saw that (4 tabs ...) and just now noticed
it's what's presented when "File -> Export as PDF". My format is also
defaulted to FDF (and I have no idea (yet) what that means -- I'm not
an OpenOffice expert by any means and I'm still struggling with some
formatting issues).

What I've been doing is simply clicking the [PDF] button ("Export
Directly as PDF") in the next-to-top toolbar and to the left of the
[Print File Directly] button.

The biggest "problem" I've had copy'n'pasting some web pages into OO
is finding the right spot at which to begin the copy portion, esp. when
pictures and/or graphics are in the range. Sometimes beginning at
the lower-right corner of the range works best (and working backwards)
and some times the upper-right corner of the range. With a "clean"
web page the upper-left corner of the range generally works fine. And
some web pages are just plain nasty, requiring a lot of trial'n'error.

Sometimes a range has to be broken into 2 or 3 sections to get-around
ads or other material that's not part of the article. Experimenting
to get it "right" is the only answer, and also liberal use of the
"Edit -> Undo: Paste clipboard" (or Ctrl-Z) until it's "right". :-)

People can immediately see the advantage to printing to pdf!

The latest Nautilus is Gnome x.24 has tabs. They said it couldn't be done, but
they did it because people wanted it. I also found out to use Nautilus in XFCE
without having it takeover the desktop and menu bar. You need to use the
--no-desktop switch. The command is: nautilus --no-desktop. You can make a
launcher in XFCE or Fluxbox with this switch to simplify its use.

On the subject of file managers, I am not crazy about the new KDE file manager,
Dolphin. I can do just about anything I want with Konqueror. I prefer it to
Nautilus for most things. However with all of the extensions, Nautilus comes
close. Dolphin is all about looks and lower on functionality IMO. For example
you can have hidden files always show in Konqueror, but after you turn on hidden
files in Dolphin it reverts back to no hidden files. That sucks as I use hidden
files all of the time. I know that you can use the hot key but why should I have
to.

BTW, here is Nautilus with tabs for those of you not using the latest Gnome:
arstechnica.com/.../gnome-file-manager-gets-tab\
bed-file-browsing

Using a PDF "printer" doesn't always produce desirable results, but
this is highly dependent on the web page. Some web pages are really
convoluted and the only way to get a "clean" copy of the contents is
by doing a copy'n'paste into OpenOffice, then exporting as a PDF.

My preferred method is to install cups-pdf and then print the file as you would
with any printer or you can print to file and this way have more control over
the file name.