[GNC] A way to disable autofill entries? or am I doing it wrong?

[Dylan L]

Hi David,

Wow, that was a super fast response. Sorry, that my bug searching skills were not up to snuff. Thank you for your response.

You are right on the money with those two bugs being my problem. I know have a workaround (verified works for me) for the first and will wait on the second.

Regards,

Dylan

> On Aug 16, 2018, at 11:11 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> For the first, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734>. This explains the problem and a workaround.
> 
> It sounds as if your second problem is related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796741 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796741>. That is supposed to be fixed in the next release.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Dylan L <dylanrl at gmail.com <mailto:dylanrl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Relatively new to Gnucash and very new to this mailing list.  I am running
>> 
>> Version: 3.2
>> Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24)
>> Finance::Quote: 1.47
>> 
>> MacOS 10.13.6
>> 
>> And running into the following scenario. I go to enter something into a ledger and it autocompletes to a previous entry.  When this is not what I want to enter how do I find I have to select the "remaining entry" with the mouse to delete it.  Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a key combo that will clear it out? Continuing to type just adds more between the initial and remaining match e.g.
>> 
>> I type 'R' which auto-fills 'Roger Mortgage Co' (a previous entry) leaving my cursor after the 'R' and before 'oger Mortgage Co'.
>> 
>> I actually want to enter 'Reynolds Construction' so I continue to type 'eynolds' and I get 'Reynoldsoger Mortgage Co'
>> 
>> I am used to entry systems where the either the 'oger Mortgage Co would be highlighted so I can delete it, or as I type 'eynolds' it would remove the old entry.
>> 
>> Also, when I paste into a ledger (e.g. into the description) I sometimes find that subsequent key presses are ignored.  Again, am I doing something wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dylan
>> 
>> 
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