Automatically move down in reconciliation

[Maf. King]

On Fri 23 January 15 07:16:21 Russell Gadd wrote:
> On 22/01/15 08:09, Maf. King wrote:
> > On Thu 22 January 15 07:34:12 Russell Gadd wrote:
> >> Some time ago Gnucash stopped moving the focus down to the next entry
> >> when you press spacebar to tick an item in the reconciliation. I've
> >> been waiting in vain for this to be reinstated. Was it deliberate for
> >> some reason? Can a user choose some setting to get it back?
> >> 
> >> Using version 2.6.1 in Linux Mint ("This copy was built from rev
> >> 76cba80+ on 2014-02-19"). Maybe the Minters did this?
> > 
> > Hi Russ,
> > 
> > This cropped up a few months ago - Geert explained the reason for the
> > change here
> > 
> > http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-November/056789.html
> > 
> > and suggests some workarounds. To my mind, sounds like a useful "feature"
> > has been lost.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Maf.
> 
> Thanks for the reference. It's a pity that the poster didn't state a
> more useful case for wanting this facility. Of course reconciling is not
> a matter of "automatically checking off each box as fast as you can" but
> I don't like having to fiddle with positioning the mouse accurately many
> times in a list where it would be much easier to use the keyboard. I
> have to use the mouse too much anyway and I'm conscious of RSI so prefer
> to use the keyboard where possible. The facility to use Ctrl-A or
> highlighting several items and ticking in one click isn't particularly
> useful. As there are control key combinations to reconcile and
> unreconcile it shouldn't be a stretch of imagination to create ones
> which will move down as well. Or preferably all you need is a toggle in
> the options somewhere.


I haven't explicitly tried this, but don't the cursor keys move you up and 
down the reconcile window list?  (maybe that has been deprecated too since 
2.4.x, or maybe I imagined it in the past?)

0.02
Maf.



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