Quickfill again

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue May 1 12:03:19 EDT 2012


Indeed, consensus at the time was that ESC would cancel quickfill.

-derek

"Dustin Henning" <The00Dustin at gmx.net> writes:

> I wasn't around last time this was discussed.  I would prefer to see ESC
> cancel the quickfill immediately, as tab could be an acknowledgement even
> when the last character is a space for me.  Alternatively, quickfill options
> could come from a drop-down instead of showing up in-line, then they could
> be selected only when desired using the mouse or arrow keys.  Both of these
> options would be more standard than checking for the last character when
> leaving the field (with tab or otherwise).  That said, there are paid
> programs with more widespread use than gnucash with similar problems, my
> workaround is typically to use keyboard shortcuts to quickly get to where I
> want to correct the quickfill, correct it, and if necessary, leave a space
> between characters so that it doesn't re-correct, making the last action
> before exit deletion of that space instead of a typing action.
> 	Dustin 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
> Derek Atkins
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:43
> To: Paul Abrahams
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Quickfill again
>
> Paul,
>
> Paul Abrahams <abrahams at acm.org> writes:
>
>> Every once in a while I'd like to reraise the issue of being able to 
>> cancel quickfill for a particular transaction.  Right now there are 
>> ways to circumvent it, like tabbing past the Description field and 
>> then backtabbing to it, but they are all unnatural and inconvenient.
> [snip]
>
>> I can't speak with certainty to the effort involved in making this 
>> change, but I wouldn't expect it to require an excessive amount of 
>> coding.
>>
>> Thanks for reconsidering this idea.
>
> Nobody has ever said the idea is bad; I'm sure lots of people would like it.
> So I'm not sure what "reconsideration" you are asking for, here.
> If you want to see it implemented quickly then I'm afraid your best option
> is to find a developer (maybe you, maybe someone else) who can implement it
> and have that person send in the patches.  Other than that, I'm afraid it's
> just sitting in the queue of great ideas that don't get implemented due to
> lack of time.
>
> There is no need to bring it up on the list again and again.  Put it into
> UserVoice.  Or file an RFE in Bugzilla.  But without patches tied to it I
> think it's unlikely to happen until some developer really wants to see it
> happen.  Emailing over and over wont change that.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> -derek

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