Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Colin Law]

On 22 February 2017 at 14:40, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 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...
>

Is it possibly a function of how fast you type? If you manage to type :Di
before it has filled in the ood that it gets confused?

Colin