[GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction descriptions

[Jack Lockard]

Frankly, I liked the way it worked in the earlier versions better. I did not have to do near as much typing to get the previous transaction I wanted.

With the new version it is either the extra typing or scrolling through a long list, both of which are more time consuming.

Part of the issue as I see it is that if you say type "am" in the description the list includes items that start with "am", but it also includes items that have "am" anywhere in the description. For instance, in my case the list includes entries like James, Family, Amazon, Amy, Hampton, and the list goes on. If it only should items that start with the entered letters it would be much better IMO.

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:06 AM
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction descriptions

How would you envision this would work in a case where you want to edit an existing transaction that has a description which you've removed from the list for new transactions? Since every transaction as it is being entered is a 'new' transaction, where does this cutoff happen?

Maybe an example could illustrate this use case?


Regards,
Adrien

On 6/6/23 9:32 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> The problem with the solution that Adrien suggests is that there is a
> real possibility that the existing descriptions may be correct for
> existing transactions but inappropriate for new transactions.  I think
> there is no solution as long as the current method is used to populate
> the list, so we must live with it.

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