Please, please provide a way to cancel quickfill on a per-transaction basis

[Dan Black]

On 03/05/2011 04:16 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 5 March 2011 20:56, Paul Abrahams<abrahams at acm.org>  wrote:
>> I like Gnucash, but it's maddening what I have to do to get rid of a
>> transaction split caused by quickfill from the previous transaction.  I've
>> tried adding a space after the description field, as someone once suggested.
>> That works once, but then the name followed by a space is memorized also.
>>
>> It's not good design to force a user to switch focus from keyboard to mouse
>> and back again unless it's absolutely necessary.  There's no easy keyboard way
>> to get rid of the split.  Even Alt-N/v doesn't do it because V in that context
>> is listed both for RemoVe Transaction Split and Void Transaction.  And that
>> still would be far more keystrokes than needed.
> I realise it is not addressing your underlying issue but just to point
> out that Alt-n v followed possibly by another v, to get remove
> transaction split selected, deletes the split.  Not ideal I know but
> it does allow deleting the split without using the mouse.
>
> Colin
There is the option to leave the Description field blank until the rest 
of the transaction is filled in, then tab or arrow up back to fill in 
the Description.

Dan