[GNC] Odd Description Behaviour When Updating Description that ends with ")"

Jim DeLaHunt list+gnucash at jdlh.com
Tue Nov 17 03:15:03 EST 2020


David:

This sounds to me like a known GnuCash bug, 
<https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797971>, "odd cursor behaviour 
in register Description". Apparently, it is fixed in the nightly builds, 
but I haven't checked that myself yet. The next release of GnuCash 
should have the fix.

Best regards,
       —Jim DeLaHun

On 2020-11-16 23:03, David H wrote:
> Replying to/Correcting my own email - sorry the right bracket is not added
> as it's already there, it's just that the cursor bounces to the end of the
> description prematurely...
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 17:01, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've just recently noticed an unusual behaviour with the Description - if
>> you have an existing description that ends with a right round bracket e.g.
>> (From dd/mm/ccyy to dd/mm/2020) and you attempt to update the To Date to
>> 2021 by simply highlighting the last 2 characters of 2020 and overtyping,
>> leaving the ")" character un-highlighted as soon as 1 character is entered
>> a ")" is also added automatically so you end up with "202)0" instead of the
>> expected "2020)"
>>
>> Running Gnucash 4.2 on MacOS Big Sur.
>>
>> Not sure if this occurs on Linux/Win 10 but will check further and if it's
>> NOT an existing bug will raise a bug report for it.
>>
>> Regards David H.
>>
>>
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