split delete funny stuff

[Derek Atkins]

"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> writes:

> On 23 February 2010 at 10:32, Derek Atkins said:
>
>> "Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Actually, it has always struck me as rather eccentric, not to mention as
>> > an accident waiting to happen, that the program does not have separate
>> > choices for "delete this split" and "delete this transaction.  
>> 
>> Define "Separate Choices"?  It most certainly does differentiate based on
>> the register mode.  If you're in Basic mode it assumes "delete this
>> transaction" always.  If you're in expanded mode then it depends which
>> line you're on; it will ask you whether you want to delete this split or
>> all the other splits.
>
> Which version is that?

All of them.  It's been there since at least 1.8 if not longer.

> I'm using 2.2.9 (on Windows). In unsplit "Basic Ledger" view, obviously 
> "Delete" refers to the currently-selected transaction.
>
> In any expanded view (and I've tried Auto-Split, Transaction Journal and 
> Basic-Ledger-with-Split, and also the General Ledger), "Delete" against 
> the top line refers to the transaction, and "Delete" against a split line 
> refers to the split. I can't see how to make it ask whether I mean just 
> this split or all splits.

Try the right-click context menu.  :)

> (Not that I want it to: the way it works now seems perfectly intuitive to 
> me.)

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-derek

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