Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 08:06:52 GMT jmk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had a very strange behavior surface today while I was entering
> transactions. I use the keyboard autocomplete feature to quickly
> categorize things (e.g. I type "ex:fo:di" to autofill to
> "Expenses:Food:Dining"). Well for some reason this has become really
> erratic. Sometimes it will work as it always has for years, but
> sometimes the highlighted text in the input box will become unselected
> and place my cursor at the end and everything I type after that is
> translated literally and not used to match a category. In the above
> example I might end up with something like "Expenses:Fo:Diood" --
> GnuCash decided to unselect the text right after I typed the 'o' and
> left the autofill text at the end. It's very weird and hard to explain.
> 
> I haven't had any input problems in any other applications.
> 
> I GC 2.6.12 on Unbuntu 16.04 running KDE Plasma 5.8.5.
> 

Hi,
FWIW, I have also seen this for a while now (a year or so), OpenSuSE Leap 
42.1, GC 2.6.12, KDE Plasma 5.5.5 at the moment, but I think also in GC 2.6.11 
or earlier.

It is quite annoying, and seemingly unpredictable...

Maf.