QIF syntax question

Linas Vepstas linas@linas.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:29:14 -0500


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:12:20PM -0700, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark:
> On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 10:15, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > 
> > Well, maybe we should fix cut & paste to work on whole transactions,
> > rather than on individual cells.   
> 
> It has for some time. Try 'Duplicate' from the register toolbar
> and transaction cut/copy/paste from the register edit menu.

Oh, uhh, funny, my eyes never looked that far down on the menu ...
ctrl-x, ctrl-v is as far as I got.

Why not make ctrl-x, ctrl-v work for transactions instead of strings?  
Using a menu for cut-n-paste of strings strikes me as 'dumb', a
microsoft-emulation idiocy.  With X11, a 'highlight' is by default a
copy to the global clipboard, and a middle-button is already a paste
from the clipboard (or you can use the clipboard menus ...), so we don't
need yet another mechanism in gnucash, agreed?

--linas




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