[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[Glenn Fowler]

I'm on windows and the notes do populate with the description... it should
be the same cross platform

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:42 AM Dustin Henning <gcul209 at mynym.us> wrote:

> And it's worse.  Guess I REALLY should have read the release notes.  Now
> notes doesn't autofiill the old way anyymore so I have to manually type
> even more.  My search still isn't begins with, either, so my list is
> still extremely long.  I guess maybe they missed that on Mac.  At least
> everybody else is happy with the improvements.  I'm used to being an
> outlier, so it is what it is.
>
> On 6/29/23 10:02 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > Yes, they switched to a 'begins with' search. (release notes are your
> > friend - they are always posted on the website and here on the mailing
> > list in the release announcement)
> >
> > Since the list also shows more recent descriptions first, it is now
> > like 4.x, but instead of only giving you an auto-fill of the last used
> > similar description, you get more choices.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > On 6/28/23 4:00 PM, Dustin Henning wrote:
> >> Sounds like a good enouh reason to take the leap. Do not fill is
> >> presumably the opposite of what I want, but if it shortened the list,
> >> it probably did so by filtering using a "begins with" type filter,
> >> which would at least help a little.  The problem with "keep typing to
> >> narrow it down" is I'm suddenly typing 10+ characters where 2 or 3
> >> would have been enough before, but that doesn't mean the new method
> >> can't have improved.  Thanks for the tips.
> >
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