Press enter to get blank transaction

[Dave Peticolas]

Jan Handwerker writes:
> Dear List,

> here another question: The online manual tells me that pressing
> enter whereas I fill in a transaction will finish and save this
> transaction and go to the nex t (probably blank) transaction.

> This is not what happens. It seems to me as if gnucash wants to make a splitt
> transaction and asks me for the next part of this transaction. But I do not
> want to make any splitted transactions. 

> Did I read the manual wrong? Is there a option I did not find? Is
> this an kno wn problem to 1.4.9?

You didn't read the manual wrong, the behavior is more complex
than described. Pressing 'enter' in a multi-line mode while on
a 'split' will save the split and move on to the next split.
If you're entering the blank split, it will save it and move
to the new blank split.

dave