Sort transactions new to old

[Fred Bone]

On 18 October 2012 at 4:35, Chris Lonsberry said:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just getting started with GnuCash (after becoming way too annoyed with
> Mint to continue using it). Very happy so far!
> 
> I've discovered that the ability to sort new to old rather than old to new
> does not currently exist. Is there a way to post a feature request for
> GnuCash? I would imagine reverse sorting would be a fairly simple feature
> to implement.
> 
> Why? If I have a lot of transactions to work through, I prefer to start
> with the new ones rather than the old ones, but when working from new to
> old the cursor always goes to the next, blank transaction after I finish
> with each transaction. That requires me to manually select the previous
> transaction. It adds up to a lot of extra clicking or tabbing when you
> want to work reverse chronological.

I for one don't understand why you need to "manually select" a "previous 
transaction" when entering a batch of transactions. Why not complete each 
one before moving on to the next?