turning off auto-fill

[David T.]

My workaround to shorting out the auto-fill is to type my entry, and if (as is
often the case) GC insists on more than I want, I type some other character and
then delete it, which derails the auto-fill. For example, my QIF import puts
in:

Description: COMPUSA #182763784657

and I want:

Description: CompUSA

typing "CompUSA" will ALWAYS result in the auto-filling from the import. So, I
type:

"CompUSA.{backspace}"

Result: "CompUSA" is now in the description. And, look ma, no mouse! 

Since I mostly import OFX and QIF and then edit the result (rather than typing
transactions in), I do not know whether this clears out the rest of the
transaction (although I imagine it would).

HTH,
David

--- Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/9/07, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:43 -0600, Terry Therneau wrote:
> > >   In gnucash, the tab key does two things: move to the next field, and
> also
> > > invokes auto-fill.  In my situation, the auto fill is wrong over 1/3 of
> the
> > > time, and it takes far more time to erase a bad one than to type a new
> one,
> > > especially when the old transaction was a split.
> >
> > I don't think there's a preference for it; there should be.  Please find
> > or file an RFE at <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash>
> >
> > I've found that using 'down arrow' doesn't trigger the auto-filling, but
> > others haven't seen the same behavior.
> 
> To take this further, if there were a single keystroke that performs
> the "Remove Split Transaction" function, that would be nice.
> Alternatively, if you could "undo" the auto-fill (including splits)
> using the standard undo keystroke, it would help, though of course it
> might be more efficient to also have a special "don't auto-fill when I
> tab" keystroke as Quicken does.
> 
> If anyone creates the RFE for this, please post the number to this
> thread -- I would love to subscribe to it but I don't have time to
> create it at the moment.
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