[GNC] Transaction Entry Confirmation

[David Carlson]

The default behavior of GnuCash is  always to "enter" all pending edits
when the Enter key is pressed.  To make more edits to the same transaction
use Tab or Alt-Tab or the mouse to navigate to the next field.

Then, after pressing the Enter key, as Derek pointed out, the transaction
edit. is completed and the cursor moves to the next transaction.

I am not at my computer right now but I think hitting Enter again moves the
cursor to the following transaction, which is probably why it never
occurred to me to try that.

If you really want to leave a transaction with "pending " edits you need to
use the mouse to click on some action button to navigate to another
register or whatever,   but then you risk forgetting that you left that
transaction pending,  which can bite you the next time you do a file save.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 3:03 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> It's not a big deal I was just looking for one and wasn't able to find
> an option like that.
>
> If you want to know how my brain is working.....
> If I mash ENTER in an open split transaction it moves down to the next
> split transaction. What does that mean? Does that mean the whole
> transaction was entered or just the split was entered? I'm never sure so
> I was looking for an audio confirmation when the entire transaction was
> committed like in the program I used before switching to  GNU Cash.  Now
> to be absolutely sure I close the split and mash ENTER again.
>
> On 8/31/21 3:41 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Jack,
> >
> > On Tue, August 31, 2021 3:30 pm, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
> >> What's yhere to understand. I was looking for an audio confirmation like
> >> a little tiny beep.
> > I think Will's point was questioning why you specifically want an audio
> > confirmation when there is clearly a visual confirmation (by the cursor
> > moving to the next line or new transaction).
> >
> > -derek
> >
> >> On 8/31/21 11:30 AM, William Prescott wrote:
> >>> I don't understand.
> >>>
> >>> When I type the Enter key, it moves from one line of a transaction to
> >>> the next line. After the last line, it enters the transaction and moves
> >>> to the first line of the next transaction.
> >>>
> >>> This is with GnuCash 4.6-1 running on MacOS 11.5.2.
> >>>
> >>> Will
> >>>
> >>> On 2021 Aug 31, at 08-31 10:06:10, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
> >>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way to have GNU Cash make an audio confirmation when a
> >>> manual transaction has been entered?
> >>>
> >>> When I manually enter a transaction by mashing ENTER there is no
> >>> feedback that the transaction was entered and I keep hitting ENTER to
> be
> >>> sure I didn't fat finger it.
> >>> Just a little beep would suffice.
> >>>
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