[GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

[Kalpesh Patel]

In that case suggestion is to remove it and then install it again as it does appear to be a unique situation on your system. This definitely is not the normal behavior on my desktop (I am on Windows 11 system) and I doubt that would be for anyone else as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Long <davidvernonlong at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 7:52 PM
To: D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

Hi,

What happens is that when I enter the description, the autofill tries to find a match, but if it does not I am unable to continue typing the description I want. As Michael D Novack, says , I can end up fighting with GnuCash to get the description I want. Also, when I try to backspace and delete letter by letter, that does not seem to work either.
It must be something unique to my installation, if it effects nobody else.
The suggested trick of putting in a wrong starting character does not seem to work either, as then I cannot continue typing.

Thanks for any ideas.

David

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I should have added that ignore the matcher matching and suggesting until you have typed in fully what you want. If that happens to match an entry than add a space or two to what you have typed in to make it unique which will make that stick in the description. The trick he mentions of entering an obvious wrong character


-----Original Message-----
From: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 2:29 PM
To: 'stepbystepfarm at comcast.net' <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>; 'gnucash-user at gnucash.org' <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: RE: [GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

Just continue to type out fully what you want in the description and if it doesn?t match anything that it has then it will retain what you have typed in exactly as-is.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 9:12 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Description input on a transaction difficulty

On 6/12/2023 12:06 AM, davidvernonlong at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> When entering a description into a transaction, I think GnuCash is 
> trying to autofill, but it does not allow me to input the description 
> I
wish to enter.
> Is it me, or is it a bug?
> Thanks
> David

This is unlikely to be a bug. Bugs don't just affect you.

However your description of the problem isn't clear enough for us to be of much help. Try again. When you try to type in the description that you do want, what prevents that? Because of "autofill" gnucash will try to enter a "match" from the past << a previous description that starts the same way
>> I experience this. You might have to fight with gnucash a bit to get
what you want entered. Assuming you want to have autofill working for other than the situation causing the problem, here is a trick you might find useful;

Start entering the description that you do want (the one that is getting caught by autofill) with an obvious wrong starting character. I usually use "q" or "x:, etc. Once you have typed in the description that way (it won't get caught by autofill) you go back and delete that starting character. Of course this isn't a trick specific to gnucash.


Michael D Novack