auto fill of account in Transfer column of ledger

[Derek Atkins]

It is possible that there is still a race condition in the autofill code
such that the cursor placement happens at the wrong time.

Could you provide more information on your platform?
OS/Distro?  Version?
GnuCash Version?
UI System?

Thanks,

-derek

Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> writes:

> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-June/020763.html
> Derek didn't mention bug nr. Guess I saw a similar problem he mentioned on
> the forum, not bugzilla.
>
> The problem mentioned on the forum was about autofill in the description or
> memo fields, I think. I am having a fit with autocompletion running against
> account names in the account column on a ledger, labeled "Transfer". But it
> is a similar issue. When I am updating a transaction that has been
> imported, for example, the transfer account may show as
>
> 3 Equity:Imbalance-USD
>
> and I want to enter something like
>
> 5 Expenses:Groceries
>
> If I tab into the account name column and start to type "5:gr", then
> sometimes I get something that looks like the following
>
> 5:gr Expenses:Amazon
>
> and autocompletion stops and my typing is just added to the field -
> yielding a name that is not an account. If I try to tab out of that gnc
> asks if I'd like to create an account called "5:gr Expenses:Amazon".
> (Sometimes it enters something like "5:Grroceries", having inserted a
> matching "r" into the searched text. So the odd behavior is not entirely
> consistent; sometimes it still works correctly.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:47 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Keith,
>>
>> I think that there is more than one kind of auto fill depending on the
>> action that triggers it.  Are you referring to what happens when you are
>> manually entering a transaction into a register and a copy of an entire
>> transaction or split line appears or just additional text characters in one
>> box or some other action?
>>
>> Since you found an old bug reference it would also help if you remember
>> the bug number.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just joined list. Sorry if this is old news. Using 2.6.12 in fedora 23.
>>> The
>>> feature that helps select an account for a transaction seems to be broken,
>>> as in, not working the way it did before. A look at bugzilla suggests that
>>> this is a reversion of a bug from around 2007.
>>>
>>> The issue is that the autofill seems to lock into the first hit and then
>>> starts inserting additional search characters instead of continuing the
>>> search.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>>
>>> Keith
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