[GNC] autocomplete not working in 3.2

[V. Vatsal]

Thanks for this clarification. It works the way you say. 

For what it’s worth, there are a number of small bugs in the Mac OS file handling and UI in 3.2. 

Eg, if you move or delete a the primary gnucash file, and click on a different one, gnucash seems to get confused.

Nike

> On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:45 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op woensdag 4 juli 2018 05:30:15 CEST schreef V. Vatsal via gnucash-user:
>> I am new to GnuCash, but I can confirm that autocomplete doesn’t work well
>> on Mac OS. I would expect that typing “foo” would match “Expenses:Food” but
>> it doesn’t match anything unless you type the whole string “expenses:foo”
>> which rather defeats the purpose.
>> 
>> Nike
> 
> you should be able to type "ex:fo" to get expenses:food. That is gnucash 
> expands each component of the path individually. If that doesn't work you have 
> indeed found a bug.
> 
> A bit of background on why we are in this situation: we were forced to 
> completely overhaul the register code for 3.x due to the "mandatory" upgrade 
> to gtk3 fairly late in the 3.x development cycle. I wish we had had more time. 
> So the register code does indeed still have some rough edges which we're 
> trying to clean out as they are reported.
> 
> Please bear with us and by all means continue to report the issues you 
> experience so we can make the next releases better again!
> 
> Geert
> 
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