Quickfill gripe - again!
Paul Abrahams
abrahams at acm.org
Fri Dec 16 10:07:18 EST 2011
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 --
its interpretation of the description is completely stateless.
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, especially if
it's a split.
I don't really want 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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Pardon me if this is a duplicate. The first attempted send seemed not to have
worked.
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