turning off auto-fill

[Josh Sled]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:43 -0600, Terry Therneau wrote:
>   In gnucash, the tab key does two things: move to the next field, and also
> invokes auto-fill.  In my situation, the auto fill is wrong over 1/3 of the
> time, and it takes far more time to erase a bad one than to type a new one,
> especially when the old transaction was a split.

I don't think there's a preference for it; there should be.  Please find
or file an RFE at <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash>

I've found that using 'down arrow' doesn't trigger the auto-filling, but
others haven't seen the same behavior.


>   Is there a way to separate these two functions?  Per my first sentence,
> "change fields with the mouse" is not a desireable solution; but it is the
> only one I found in the documents.  The best possible solution would be a
> split into 2 key stokes: tab moves and alt-whatever invokes a fill.

I might be misreading, but this reads to me that you're unaware you can
select accounts with the keyboard ... when you're on the transfer
(account) cell, you can start typing the name of the account, and use
the account separator (usually ":") to complete sections.  E.g. for
"Expenses:Vehicle:Gas", you can get away with "ex:v:g" (assuming no
other naming conflicts).

You can enter transactions soley with the keyboard, most of the time.  I
zip through my weekly receipt entry usually with receipts on top of the
mouse.

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