Using 'return' or 'enter' key instead of tab...

[Doug Laidlaw]

Under Quicken, I use Tab.  If I hit Enter there, I get a dialog: "Do you want 
to use the Enter key to move between fields?" or similar.  I usually say No, 
but the choice is there.  Enter can be used in my wife's Australian made 
package as well, but sometimes it does the wrong thing as well.  For example, 
in the "check number" field, the next number is prompted.  Hitting Enter 
selects it and enters it in the transaction; hitting Tab moves you on without 
using it, for non-check transactions.  You can use the right arrow as well, 
instead of Tab.

If you wanted to have that, it would need to be coded in.  To my thinking, 
that is the way GnuCash is.  Every program has its own procedures.

In answer to yours, Colin, according to Help, if you uncheck that box, Enter 
moves you down one row.  I think that while that is checked, Enter will move 
to a blank transaction from anywhere.  If the current transaction is 
incomplete, a query should pop about what to do with it.  Perhaps that is why 
it is a problem for Ken.

Doug.

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:07:26 am Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/8/31 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
> > Enter/Return "Enters" the transaction.  It's the same as hitting the
> > "Enter" button in the toolbar.  It commits your transaction and tells
> > GnuCash you are finished with it and want to move to the next
> > transaction.
>
> Under Edit, Preferences, Register there is a checkbox, Enter moves to
> blank transaction.  Presumably clearing this will affect what enter
> does but I am not sure to what.
>
> Colin L
>
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting "Ken G." <beachkid at insightbb.com>:
> >> Thank you for your reply.
> >>
> >> What does the Enter/Return key do?  To me, it accept the transaction
> >> date.
> >>
> >> Again, thanks.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>> "Ken G." <beachkid at insightbb.com> writes:
> >>>> Is there a way to use the Enter/Return key in GnuCash instead of using
> >>>> the Tab key?
> >>>
> >>> They perform different operations.  There's no way that I know of to
> >>> bind the "tab" operation to the enter/return key.
> >>>
> >>>> Ken
> >
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