[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 18:57:43 EDT 2019


This is another aspect relating to the behavior of GnuCash under the
general subject of pending edit.  See <
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-June/085353.html> and
it is also mentioned in <
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-June/085341.html> .

David Carlson

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:24 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It looks to me like the paste actually worked fine, but it was not edited
> to show the account where you wanted it.  Try adding a split line assigned
> to the desired account first.  Of course, then you might as well save, jump
> to the other account, copy the other account name over the undesired
> account name, re-save and delete the extra line and save again.
>
> That works fine.  You could also navigate to the same transaction in the
> General Ledger, for example, and directly change the account name there.
>
> Lastly, you could also request a new feature to automatically check the
> account name when pasting a complete transaction into an account register
> and throw up a dialog asking whether you want to paste 'as is' or change
> the anchor account to match the account register that you are trying to
> paste into?
>
> David Carlson
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 3:55 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried pasting into something like a plain text editor after
>> cutting? Perhaps the clipboard is not picking up the ‘cut’ but GnuCash is
>> still removing the data.
>>
>> Anytime I have a pasting problem I always test in a plain text editor to
>> see if that is the issue.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> > On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I just tried cutting a transaction in one account, and I saw it vanish.
>> > I went to another account, pasted it, and it wasn't there, it had
>> > gone back to the account where it was before I cut it.
>> >
>> > So I carefully repeated the cut/paste and it did that again.
>> >
>> > So I deleted it from the one account, and typed it in manually into
>> > the other account and it worked.
>> >
>> > Has anybody else seen anything like this?
>>
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