Behavior of Enter in register

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dennis Muhlestein
<djmuhlestein at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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>.
>

How about changing the current checkbox preference into three radio buttons?
1. Enter moves to the next line (default)
2. Enter moves to the next transaction
3. Enter moves to a new transaction

-Charles


> -Dennis
>