Function to override Quick-Fill ?

[Brian Gerst]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> I've been using gnucash off and on for awhile, but starting this
> calendar year I'm seriously moving all my ongoing bookkeeping to it.
> (I've been using Quicken since 1994, and I swore I would not suffer
> yet another EOL-forced upgrade.)
> 
> One thing that has been slowing me down is that I cannot find a
> function to override the Quick-Fill feature. I believe in Mac Quicken
> it is command-tab.
> 
> Here's the scenario: I sometimes buy stuff at a "SuperCenter," where
> they have groceries in addition to hardware, appliances, clothing,
> gasoline, etc. So each time I buy stuff there I usually enter a split
> transaction with different accounts (aka Quicken categories --
> groceries... home repair...clothing...entertainment; whatever). In
> Quicken I would start typing "Wal" and the previous split transaction
> gets filled in, but before I leave the name field I command-tab to the
> amount field, and a new empty un-split transaction gets created, and I
> can easily create a new set of splits as needed without having to
> delete the old splits and mess with the totals.
> 
> I have not found a Quick-Split override keystroke in the documentation
> nor in a web search, though I could easily have missed it.
> 
> I can imagine a couple of ways I can work around this, but I first
> wanted to ask on the users list in case I'm missing a simple
> keystroke.

What I do is use a nonsense description to start with so it does not
autocomplete, then change it to the real description after entering the
splits.