Quickfill gripe - again!

[John Layman]

I'm affected by the quirks of quick-fill as much as anyone, but haven't let
that turn into a pet peeve.  You can, in effect, turn quick-fill off on a
transaction by transaction basis simply by not tabbing out of the
description field.  Moving to the account or amount field using the mouse
doesn't strike me as any more onerous than having to toggle quick-fill using
some key convention.  I would agree that it might be well to provide an
option to turn it off altogether for users who simply can't cope.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=laymanandlayman.com at gnucash.org] On
Behalf Of Paul Abrahams
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:59 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Quickfill gripe - again!

I haven't been using Gnucash for a while, but when I just got back to it I
discovered that the quickfill behavior is as unpleasant as ever.  I seem to
recall that someone claimed that you could defeat it by typing an extra
space after the description.  I tried that, and it works -- once.  The next
time, quickfill remembers the space also.  Backspacing over the extra space
does not help.  Quickfill appears to base its decisions on the characters
that exist in the description field just before you hit the tab key and on
nothing else.

The classic example where 	quickfill is a loser is an account at a
department 
store, where you buy different things every time you go there. You really
don't want to have the category of the last purchase forced on you.

I don't really need quickfill eliminated altogether -- I just need a way to
turn it off on a per-transaction basis.  Even better would be a way to turn
it off for a particular description such as a department store name.

Is there any way yet that I can disable this blasted nuisance?
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