Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[Adrien Monteleone]

You’re not alone.

I’ve been seeing similar behavior since switching to Mac. I’ve never seen this on Unity. (I was using 12.04 at the time)

I thought at first it was clumsy fingers, but since I had no issues on Linux I wasn’t convinced.

Unfortunately, I can’t reliably cause the bug to repeat, so I gave up consideration of reporting it.

I just hit one or two letters now and scroll through my accounts to find what I want.
> On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:54 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> 
> From: jmk <jmk at cmail.nu <mailto:jmk at cmail.nu>>
> Subject: Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete
> Date: February 22, 2017 at 8:06:52 AM CST
> To: GnuCash-User List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
> 
> 
> 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.