[GNC] Importing transactions in multi-currency accounting

[andrepd]

I have current accounts in EUR, USD, and GBP. The way I track my expenses
currently is: if the expense is exclusively in one of the currencies (e.g.
UK bills in GBP), then the expense account is in GBP. Otherwise, it's in the
"home" currency of EUR. This requires using exchange rates when, for
example, debiting a current account in USD and crediting an expense account
in EUR. 

I import my bank statements monthly using OFX/CSV. However, after using
gnucash for over a year and a half, I just noticed now that when currencies
differ gnucash automatically and silently sets the exchange rate at 1! For
my aforementioned currency pairs this is an error of ~15% on every such
transaction... 

Now I'm faced with the following two questions:

* How to ensure that, when importing transactions, the (most recent)
exchange rate I set in the price editor is used

* How to edit my previous transactions so that they use the proper exhange
rate (short of doing right-click > edit exchange rate > fetch rate > OK, for
*every single transaction*)

If anybody could help that would be great. Alternatively, I'm also welcome
to suggestions for better managing multi-currency expenses (though I think
my setup is okay) :)



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