[GNC] About auto-completion

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Mon Aug 14 23:35:50 EDT 2023


Stan, the old method of typing separators still exists.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/14/23 6:26 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote:
>> I wish to support the 'search throughout' method.  I admit that it took
>> me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the
>> short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner
>> very easily.  Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several
>> introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my
>> search.
> 
> Thanks for posting, David. I was blinkered by what I was used to, but I
> think you're right, it's just a matter of training myself to type
> something unique from the interior when starting at the beginning would
> come up with the account I didn't want.
> 
> All my accounts payable begin with "AP ", and all my accounts receivable
> with "AR ". Maybe I should move those to the end of the account names.
> I'll think on that for a while.



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