[GNC] About auto-completion

[Kalpesh Patel]

I would like to search both ways. I am not certain if this facility exists or not for this specific case but perhaps anchors, similar to regex anchors, can be used to tell parser/searcher to either do at certain place like '^Chase' would entail looking for an account that ONLY starts with Chase while 'Chase' would mean any account containing Chase (including starting with). Dollar sign ($) would operate  in similar fashion for ending in. If this can be extended to any search, like description, memo, etc., even better. If aim is to fully satisfy all variations across the universe, full regex based searching might be in order.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherman Yoder <jsyrwy at emypeople.net> 
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 8:39 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] About auto-completion

   I love the "search throughout" feature. i am the treasurer of a foreign
   mission, and we track expenses by missionary family. All I have to do
   is to type in "david" and up come David's housing, transportation, and
   support accounts. That's so much nicer than typing
   Expenses:Housing:David, and so on.

   I hope this feature doesn't go away.

   Sherman

   On 8/14/2023 7:26 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.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
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