[GNC] Account Sort Order

[David T.]

Hello,

I'm using GnuCash 4.4 under Windows 10, and I am wondering how GnuCash 
sorts accounts in the Chart of Accounts window. My chosen sort order is 
by Account Code; however, I choose not to assign account codes for a 
large number of accounts (such as individual commodities in a brokerage 
account). For these accounts, I assumed that GnuCash sorts accounts by 
their names, based on an ASCII sort--which is generally what I see. The 
result is something like:

1599 - Broker A
-- 21st Century Fox
-- Alphabet
-- IBM

1600 - Alphabetically Earlier Account with higher account code

and so forth. And, indeed, that is how I see most of these accounts.

However, I decided to change up my structure and add a cash account to 
one of my brokerage accounts, and  no matter what I name this account, 
it shows up after every commodity account, like so:

1599 - Broker A
-- 21st Century Fox
-- Alphabet
-- IBM
-- 1 Cash

I've tried putting "*" "-" " ", and the result is the same; Cash appears 
after the commodities. Can anyone explain to me how GnuCash is arriving 
at this sort? Can anyone tell me if there is some way I can get the Cash 
account to appear before the commodities, without assigning account 
codes to them all? Assigning codes is out of the question because I'd 
have to resequence every commodity account after the purchase of any new 
commodity, which would get old very quickly.

TIA,

David