Using Account Codes

[Derek Atkins]

Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/1/10 1:13 PM, Derek Atkins said:
>> [...]
>> There's no reason to use shorthand text codes.  If you want groceries
>> you can just type:   e x : g
>>   
>
> There is a small reason. In some cases we can save keystrokes with
> shortcut account codes: e.g. with `1gr<Tab>' (for Groceries) and
> `1gy<Tab>' (for Gym). With the normal method it would be `ex:gr<Tab>'
> and `ex:gy<Tab>'.

Is it really worth this much trouble to save 2 keystrokes?  Especially
when you have to spend all that extra time to enter in all the codes??

> Yawar

-derek

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