Suggestion: ability to "move" transactions

[Paul Pantages]

Hi Eric,

I am still using gc1.4...

I was doing a lot of this miserable work too, after converting from
quicken.  You can at least avoid the jumping part; If I put my display
in "multiline mode", I have noticed that the open account (in your
case, cat) is listed on the top line. You can change the account right
there to cat.food (without jumping back & forth). It is not as good as
your suggestion for a bulk move, but I found this to be bearable.

Eric Hanchrow wrote:

> 
> 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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|Paul Pantages                                                              |
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