Mass delete of zero split lines?

[jcard21 xxxxxxx]

> JimR wrote:
>> I just discovered something that before I thought was an annoyance, but
>> now I think is much more of a pain.  When I split a checkbook register
>> transaction to a payee, the next time I create a split to the same payee,
>> GNUCash remembers all of those splits.
>>
>> In particular, when I break down my credit card bill into multiple
>> accounts, it remembers those accounts and amounts month-to-month.  For the
>> past several years, when a particular month did not have a charge to a
>> specific account, I simply deleted the amount, leaving the split line,
>> thinking that it caused no harm.
>>
>> However, when I went to search for a phrase within one of the accounts, I
>> got back every month's line item, even though those were all nil amounts.
>>  (I probably should have expected this.  Hindsight is always 20-20.)
>>
>> Is there some way that I can delete all of those nil transactions?  (I
>> have a hunch a side benefit is that it might speed up the loading of my
>> files on startup.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>

NOTE: I've been using gnuCash 2.2.9 since April, 2009... and I don't
use gnuCash's Scheduled Transactions feature.

When I create a new txn (for example: CableTV), I position the cursor
on the date field of the existing previous month's CableTV txn, press
Alt+N (MenuBar Transaction), C (copy); then I move the cursor down to
the last/new/empty line, and I press Alt+N, P (paste).

Then I just edit the new CableTV txn's date, amount, notes, splits, etc.

When editing splits, to completely remove zero amount split lines,
make sure you delete that split line's Note, Account, and amount
fields. Then, once you move the cursor off that "empty" split line,
that split line will get automatically deleted.

Then, just save the new txn.

NOTE: I would recommend gnuCash continues to allow zero amount split lines.

I believe, if you have created many txns with zero split amounts and
text in the Note field, or an account in the Account field, you would
have to edit each txn to remove them as I described above.

Hope this helps.

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jcard21