[GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

[jeanl]

I'm looking at this suggestion
https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1589607-type-ahead-search-when-entering-the-accounts-to-a

(I'm not interested in the bounty, but I too wish the desired behavior was
implemented).
This would require a bit of a change to the current account quickfill, which
is based on a tree where each leaf node shares the same starting string as
its parent. This works great for the current quickfill way to type and
account name (E:A for example for Expense:Auto).

To enable a more flexible quickfill (typing Auto would offer all account
that have "auto" in their name), we'd have to switch from the tree
representation, and have a linear array of account names, over which we'd do
a search for subtrings. These searches are very fast these days, so I don't
think performance would be an issue. Note that ideally, both types of
quickfill should remain available, via a preference.

Is that something that's been discussed in this forum? Are there major
objections to the above? 

As an aside, I don't see any use of std:: in the code, is that a directive
(that we shouldn't use the standard template library)?
Jean



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