[GNC] Pending Edit Behavior in GnuCash

[David Carlson]

I would like to throw out a new suggestion to add a permanent menu item to
the account register window that would jump to the current transaction in
the journal view,  where there is no anchor account.  This would allow
editing without worrying about whether an anchor account split is being
edited.

David Carlson

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 9:07 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I figured as much, but suggested it anyway at least as a temporary
> workaround. I do see the utility of an edit-only tab.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jun 7, 2019, at 8:37 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Returning to Adrien's comment on my Edit window Suggestion:
> >
> > >> Finally, I will throw out a radical suggestion that all edits get
> their own
> > >> new window instead of happening within a certain register view with a
> > >> certain "anchor" account which has special behavior compared to other
> split
> > >> lines.  This Edit window would not be tied to any account and would be
> > >> obviously not saved as long as it exists.
> > >>
> > > This already exists as the ‘General Journal’ (Tools menu) It’s your
> choice to use it. Though it is not implemented for only the currently
> edited transactions, but the entirety of your data file.
> > >
> >
> > My reasoning for suggesting a dedicated edit window for each transaction
> edit is to serve a completely different purpose than that served by the
> General Journal, but it may share some code in an implementation.  If each
> transaction edit was in it's own dedicated window, they would all be very
> easy to find and commit or cancel at a later time.  Then the possible
> ambiguity of having some pending edits in search windows or the General
> Ledger would also be avoided.  There may be a better coding technique to
> implement this, especially in SQL,  so I do not want to be so specific to
> prevent the developers from thinking creatively in an implementation.
> >
> > > David Carlson
>
>
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