[GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 9/14/2023 8:55 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> Just as a point of information, I prefer Basic view because I can get
> more transactions on my screen that way. When reviewing a previously
> entered transaction in an account register, I usually click the Split
> button rather than changing the whole register's view.
>
> That's what feels simplest to me, but of course it's a very individual
> taste. We are fortunate that there are usually multiple ways in GC to
> accomplish a given thing.

Probably because I can understand "basic view" as ledger wide "cashbook 
accounting" (which I used to do for the most popular accounts in pen and 
paper days) I haven't used the setting for "journal view" (except for an 
individual split transaction). So I don't know from personal experience. 
When you say "see more transactions on the page" are you saying that the 
setting results in ALL transactions on that ledger page being expanded 
in journal view WHETHER OPEN (for editing) OR NOT.

BTW -- for the benefit of those who never did bookkeeping pen and ink on 
paper, cashbook accounting was limited to a small subset of the ledger 
accounts because paper only so wide. Thus "fold out" ledger paper might 
be 12 column, so could be six accounts. IF also keeping the journal here 
(I did) that would be journal, cash, and four other accounts. 
Essentially gnucash can do "basic" for all the ledger accounts, acting 
like an indefinitely wide page, unlimited number of columns. But I don't 
think of "basic mode" as being basic but as the cashbook shortcut. I 
think of "journal mode" (which can handle the general case of 
transactions) as basic and the "basic mode" as special case of only two 
accounts involved.

The fact that this special case (only two accounts) is so common is what 
made the "cashbook accounting" shortcut so useful/time saving PLUS 
reducing the need to individually post THESE transactions eliminating 
the chance of transcription errors during posting << these were the bane 
of our existence ---- autoposting by computer is error free >>

Michael D Novack