Please, please provide a way to cancel quickfill on a per-transaction basis
Paul Abrahams
abrahams at acm.org
Mon Mar 7 12:08:41 EST 2011
> > 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.
>
> That's almost as bad as simply deleting the splits!
>
> What is needed is a simple (preferably a single keystroke) way of toggling
> autofil on each transaction. So, you type in the description, you get the
> autofill. Press a key (I'd suggest that ESC might be good, but let's not
> get too prescriptive at this point!) and the autofill data - ALL of it!! -
> disappears, leaving the transaction as if it has been freshly entered.
> Press the key again, the full autofill data re-appears.
Anything at all -- but we need something in this spirit. My suggestion of an
initial backspace is another possibility.
I'm not advocating removing autofill globally. We really want to cancel it
dynamically for a single transaction.
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