Keybinding to mark transactions "cleared"?

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Wed Apr 16 12:14:19 EDT 2008


On 16 April 2008 at 16:23, Adam Funk said:

> On 2008-04-16, David T. wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I use the spacebar to toggle a transaction's status all the
> time, and
> > in the course of reconciling a statement, it's really quick, since
> once you're
> > in the transaction pile, the spacebar both toggles the status of the
> item AND
> > moves to the next transaction. Note that a previously-cleared item
> will UNclear
> > if you spacebar through it. 
> 
> Sorry, I think my question was ambiguous.  I'm not talking about
> reconciling statements (changing the flag on transactions to "y") but
> marking transactions as cleared (changing the flag to "c" and
> affecting the "cleared balance" of the account) in an account
> register.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to move my hand off
> the keyboard, use the mouse to click the "n" so it changes to "c", and
> then either move it back to press return and click on another
> transaction or click on another transaction and then click on the
> button in the save/cancel/discard dialog box.  (I know I can set it to
> accept changes automatically without the dialog box, but I think that
> would affect *all* changes, not just to the n/c/y flag, and I'd prefer
> not to risk that.)

If you want to do a batch of them, then the reconciliation window (as 
previously noted) is quite a bit faster - at least, if you're as handy 
with the keyboard and as clumsy with the mouse as I am.



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