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

David H hellvee at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 05:03:32 EST 2020


Hi Jim,

Ah yes it’s the same issue, thanks for the heads up.

Regards David.


On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 6:17 pm, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:

> 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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