[GNC] Unsplitting a transaction

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jun 5 15:43:06 EDT 2019


On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, David Carlson wrote:

> It has always been my custom to start from the left in the row that I want
> to delete and alternately hit delete and tab across until the split
> disappears completely. I am not sure if that is the only way to do it, but
> I got into that habit long ago.

David,

Because GnuCash has a GUI I tend to use the trackball to place the cursor in
a different field, not the tab key. As I responded to Derek, that probably
makes a difference in how the application acts.

> The main caveat is if that is done in the last or only row containing the
> account register name of the current view, the entire transaction seems to
> disappear out of that register view without warning, but it still exists
> in the general ledger and the register views of the other split lines. In
> my case that process takes several seconds and it is irreversible if done
> by accident.

Yep.

Many thanks,

Rich


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