[GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

[David H]

Hi David,

Thanks for the tip, I've never noticed it on the Edit menu.  I see it seems
to return all accounts that contain the search target no matter what level
in the account string and also returns partial matches :-). My searching is
generally limited to using the Find dialogue which unfortunately doesn't
include a search history so if I get the asset/liability/whatever that I'm
searching in wrong I then have to try another one and retype what I've
recently entered.

Cheers David H.


On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 20:30, david whiting <dw at davidwhiting.me.uk> wrote:

> That used to trip me up too, but there is now ctrl+i which pops up a
> dialogue to search for accounts. One minor gripe with that is that the
> focus is not on the search box so you have to tab twice, enter your search
> expression, tab, then enter. You then get a list of matching accounts and
> select the one you want. One advantage of this approach is that it also
> works from any register (but not reports), but it is not quite as fast as
> being able to do what you are after in the chart of accounts.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 22:53 jean, <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Or as a workaround, could we not provide a shortcut to expand/contract
> > all accounts?
> > That way, when you start typing any account in the hierarchy would be
> > searched...
> >
> > J.
> >
> > On 3/14/20 12:34 PM, jeanl wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > When we're in the account list view (the main gnucash page), you can
> > start
> > > typing and this will open the account list to the first matching
> account.
> > > This is very convenient to quickly access an account in a large, deep
> > > hierarchy.
> > > However if the account tree isn't expanded, its leaf accounts are not
> > > matched, so unless the tree is fully expanded, the type ahead account
> > match
> > > isn't terribly useful.
> > >
> > > Question: Is this on purpose? I would imagine that would not be hard to
> > fix,
> > > so there must be a reason why it hasn't been...
> > >
> > > NOTE: This has nothing to do with the PR I submitted about matching
> > account
> > > in the transaction editing dialog)
> > > Jean
> > >
> > >
> > >
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