Selling stock

[Stuart McGraw]

On 03/28/2012 07:54 PM, David T. wrote:
> Stuart--
> 
> I feel your pain. I've banged my head against this one a number of different times.
> 
> The documentation in this section was changed not that long ago to deal with the problem you observe. If you look at the latest version of the documentation for this page (available at: http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-sell1.html), you will see the new note that explains that the zero-share line can only be properly created by using the Tab key to exit the split. Any other method of leaving the split causes the split to be modified in the way you describe.
> 
> See if Tabbing off the split solves your problem.
> 
> David

It does, thanks.  But the transaction still appears twice in the register!?

>  From: Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:40 PM
> Subject: Selling stock
>  
> 
> I am having a problem following the instructions in the Concepts 
> Guide for selling stock
>   (http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html)
> Is says to create a split in which the stock asset is entered twice, 
> the second time with "number of shares" and "share price" set to 0.
> 
> However, when I try to set either to zero, the zero disappears (the
> field becomes blank) as soon as I click in a different column.
> When I "Enter" the transaction, the same transaction appears in the 
> stock account register twice.  (Before I realized what was going on, 
> I deleted the second copy, thinking it was an inadvertent duplicate 
> transaction, only to have them both disappear!)
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this the expected behavior?
> (Using Gnucash-2.4.9 with Postgresql backend)