Quickfill gripe - again!
Bob Plantz
rgplantz at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 10:44:34 EST 2011
On 12/16/2011 9:38 AM, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> On Friday, December 16, 2011 09:53:13 AM John Layman wrote:
>> 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.
> Perhaps the neatest way to cancel quickfill on a per-transaction basis would be
> to have a trailing space cancel it. In other words, if you type space-tab
> after entering the description, you then move to the next field with no
> quickfill. I can't think of any use for descriptions that actually have a
> trailing space.
>
If I want a different value in the Transaction field from the last time
I used the same value in the Description field, I need to use the mouse
in the Transaction field anyway. This, as John Layman points out, does
not trigger the Quickfill feature/bother.
--Bob
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