[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[R Losey]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:07 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> On 6/30/23 10:31 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > On 6/30/23 6:04 AM, David H wrote:
> >> I've just reverted to 5.1 on both MacOS and Windows because I have
> >> found it
> >> more time consuming to manually type the full description on 3 or 4
> split
> >> lines that I've used previously in the same txn type.
> >
> > If indeed this is the case, that will be a major bummer for me. I put
> > lots of detail in my Memos and I heavily re-use descriptions for
> > often-bought items. I just upgraded and am behind on entering receipts,
> > so I suppose I'm about to find out...
>
> Indeed, autofill/suggest for memos is now gone! I'm having to type
> everything out again even though some of these have been entered dozens
> of times in this register, for this same 'Description' even. (Register
> always mattered, but I don't think that 'Description' ever mattered
> before with respect to memo fill/suggest, but I could be mistaken) It is
> like I'm back to square one - years ago.
>
> I'm about to find out if the amnesia is permanent, or just long-term
> memory loss but newly typed memos get remembered and suggested.
>

I've noticed this as well; I think it was just reset (possibly as part of
the fixes for the main auto-fill/auto-match). I know that old ones don't
match; I haven't taken the effort to see if matches persist after saving,
closing, and re-opening GnuCash... put another way, I have had some
Descriptions autofill, but I don't remember if they were the ones entered
in the current session.

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Richard Losey
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