Search and Replace

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Jan 2 18:32:31 EST 2016


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 3:04 PM, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:02 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >> No, there is no search-and-replace
> 
> is this a design decision? Otherwise that would be pretty high ranked in my personal GC wishlist
> 

I doubt it. An accountant would argue that one shouldn't be editing transactions at all, never mind in bulk. More likely it's that the Find facility operates on any field and can operate on more than one at a time. Tacking a bulk editing facility onto that in a way that would be reasonably safe and comprehensible to ordinary users is hard, so nobody did it.

Maybe after we've replaced QOF with SQL it will be more tractable.

Regards,
John Ralls




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