Behavior of Enter in register

Dennis Muhlestein djmuhlestein at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 17:41:59 EDT 2009


Charles Day wrote:
> Unless you have "Enter moves to blank transaction" check in your
> preferences, the Enter key only advances to the next row. The next row might
> be the next transaction (typical in basic ledger style) or the next split
> (typical in transaction journal style).
> Personally, I would expect Enter to save the transaction I am on and move to
> the next transaction, regardless of register style. Is there a good reason
> that it isn't that way? If I just wanted to move to the next split, I could
> use Tab or the down cursor.
> 
> It is just a one-line code change.

I might expect that too, but my wife, who also enters transactions, 
constantly gets messed up when enter brings her away from the current 
transaction she is entering.  Some people are not used to 
<edit><tab><edit><tab> and use <edit><enter><edit><enter>.

-Dennis


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