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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