Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Cheryl Wheeler]

Just another datapoint: I have seen this frequently, but only on my 
Linux box (Kubuntu 16.04). On my Win 7 boxes, I have never seen this 
problem. I'm using GC 2.6.15 in all cases.

On 2017-02-22 10:54 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:06:52 -0600
> From: jmk<jmk at cmail.nu>
> To: GnuCash-User List<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete
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> 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.
>
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