transaction record; jump to blank
Dave Peticolas
peticola@krondo.com
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:07:15 -0700
Jason Rennie writes:
>
> peticola@krondo.com said:
> > Jason Rennie writes:
> > > Anyway, I'd like to always be moved to the next blank after hitting
> > > 'Enter'. Is there a reason as to why hitting 'Enter' doesn't do this?
> >
> > There's no reason why we couldn't make that an option. I made it work
> > the way it does now to behave approximately the way the Enter key
> > works in text editing -- finish the current line and move to the next.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Sorry to keep bothering you about this, but I guess the meaning attached
> to a single key can be pretty important :)
>
> I've been importing my past year's checking account records into GNUCash
> and have been finding that I don't always want "Enter" to correspond to
> "jump to blank". Specifically, when the split line that I am editing has
> information in it (usually info that I just entered), I'd like to move to
> the next split line. If I'm in the first line of the transaction or on a
> blank split line, I'd like "Enter" to send me to a new blank entry.
I should mention that you can 'Tab' out of a split line to the next
split line. If you are in multi-line mode and you are entering the
blank split, when you tab out you will go to the new blank split.
dave