Strange problem with transaction editing auto-complete

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 22, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've never noticed this on MacOS, and I tried 10 times to replicate it just now and wasn't able to.

Regards,
John Ralls