A quickfill problem and an enhancement suggestion

[David T.]

--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de> wrote:

> From: Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m at icg-online.de>
> Subject: Re: A quickfill problem and an enhancement suggestion
> To: abrahams at acm.org
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 5:22 AM
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:50:25 -0500
> Paul Abrahams <abrahams at acm.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Here's an example of a quickfill irritation.  I
> want to enter "Stop &
> > Shop" as the description of a transaction.  So I
> type the S and then
> > the T.  At that point it autofills with full caps
> and the name of a
> > particular store in the chain, because that was in an
> imported
> > transaction.  So how do I get that lowercase "t"
> in? 
> 
> Just continue typing. As soon as what you have typed does
> no longer fit
> to an existing transaction, upper- / lowercase will
> automatically be
> restored so that it matches what you have entered.
> 

And I'll note again my longstanding point that doing as you state makes it so that "Quickfill" really isn't quick at all, since you're forced to type an entire entry PLUS one character to force it to use your preferred format...

David

> Manfred
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