Auto fill question

[Dan]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, September 16, 2012 3:26 pm, Dan wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> As Fred Bone says, you can delete the unwanted splits - that's easy to
> >> do.
> >>
> >>
> > Yes, but the question remains, can the auto fill be edited? Extra steps
> on
> > common transactions can become tedious.
>
> Unfortunately for you the quickfill data is generated from the account
> history itself.  There is nothing to "edit", except the transaction
> history itself, which I suspect you don't want to do.  GnuCash SHOULD
> re-use the most recent entry with a given description.  So you will need
> to manually change it once to be a normal transaction again, but then it
> should re-use that normal transaction for the next quickfill.
>
> > Dan
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek
>



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Gnucash does not use the most recent transaction.  I guess I will live with
the hassle, or re-name the vendor with a new first initial.  It looks to me
as if Gnucash auto fill uses the first transaction for a given description,
at least that is my experience so far.

Dan