Suggestion: ability to "move" transactions
Eric Hanchrow
offby1@blarg.net
15 Sep 2001 19:02:45 -0700
Frequently I find myself looking at a register that contains
transactions that don't belong there. For example, I have an account
called `Expenses:Cat', and in it are various cat-related expenses such
as the vet, cat food, and so on. Now, it just occurred to me that I
should have a separate sub-account for cat food, so I created that
account. But now I have to go through the original account, and move
the transactions one by one. For each transaction, I click on it,
then click "Jump", and then in the other register (typically for my
checking account), I change the value in the "Transfer" column.
Here's what I wish I could do instead: sort the original account's
register in some convenient way (such as by the Memo field, so that
all the "Cat Food" items appear together), select them all, and then
invoke a "move" command which would remove the transactions from this
account, and put them into some other account.
This would also be useful when the "source" register is the results of
a query.
Does this sound reasonable? Or is there already an equivalent way to
do what I want?
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