Problems with transaction cut/paste

[Dave Peticolas]

Gary Bickford writes:
> Even if you could only undo the very last thing one did that would be
> beneficial.  Taking your logging idea, a very long time ago I worked with a
> text editor that remembered every keystroke and mouseclick (if it caused a
> relevant action), from the time you opened the file.  This was the log.  You
> could save this transcript, and replay it from the backup file, single
> stepping if necessary.  If the program crashed, the only thing you lost was
> whatever would have been saved in the last block of the transcript file.
> This allowed me in one case to recover hours of work that I had neglected to
> save (duh!!)  Is that how these logs work?

That is how they will work when we implement them :) They won't work
at the keystroke level, though, only at the level of gnucash entities
like transactions and accounts. The logging will use the new xml file
format that Rob Browning is developing.

dave