Bug or feature?

[Derek Atkins]

What you're seeing is the addition of a new "blank split", which
is always visible in an editable, expanded transaction.  The idea
is that if you're working on a transaction (i.e. it has the focus)
then gnucash will create and display a blank split so you can add
new splits to the transaction.

Instead of double-clicking, you should single-click to get focus and
THEN double click.

-derek

Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:

> Sometimes I make payments to a particular vendor that are attributable
> to one of several expense accounts. My heating oil supplier is an
> example. Most of the payments to them are charged to the "heating oil"
> expense account. But, once/year, I have them service my oil burner,
> the payment for which is charged to the "heating system maintenance"
> account.  The problem I want to describe flows from my own
> carelessness: after entering a payment for the oil-burner service,
> attributed to the correct expense account, I entered subsequent
> payments for heating oil, and because the description is the same as
> as the maintenance payment, automatic completion fills out the
> transaction with the maintenance account on the debit side, which I
> failed to notice, multiple times. So I accumulated a bunch of
> transactions for heating oil that were attributed to the wrong expense
> account.
>
> To fix this, I did a search on the name of heating oil supplier, which
> correctly turned up all the transactions involving them. Now I want to
> double-click (to select) on the (correct) debit side of an older
> transaction, copy it (ctrl-c) and then double-click on the debit sides
> of the incorrect transactions, one by one, and paste the correct
> expense account into them. The trouble is that when I double-click on
> the source of the correct account, a blank line appears immediately
> after it, shifting all subsequent transactions down by one line. Then
> when I go to double-click on the debit side of an incorrect
> transaction, the extra line disappears from after the (earlier) source
> transaction and appears after the destination transaction. This shifts
> the latter transaction up by one line after my first click and the
> second click is therefore in the wrong place (the credit side). So,
> for what I am trying to do, the UI is making my life more difficult.
> Before I submit a bug report, I'd ask one of the developers to explain
> the rationale for this behavior (the addition of a line following a
> selected transaction), since there may be other considerations that
> justify it.
>
> /Don
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