[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[David H]

I run Win 10, Win 11, MacOS Monterey, MacOS Ventura and Ubuntu depending on
where I am at any given time.  While I quite like the latest iteration of
the automatch for transactions in 5.3 it's a little annoying that it
doesn't seem to do any matching on the splits within a txn anymore, or did
I miss setting an option somewhere?

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.

I also think that the registers now display a little differently to what
they used to.  In 5.1 any open registers always scroll all the way to the
end of the txns when you re-open your GnuCash data file.  In 5.3 they don't
seem to quite get all the way to the bottom meaning you have to manually
page down in every register you had open to see all your future txns, which
in my case is sometimes 15 - 20 as I like to know what's coming up for the
next 60 days cash flow wise.

Just my 2c worth :-)

Cheers David H.


On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 06:19, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I just upgraded to 5.3-1 on Monterey and it works fine.
>
> I did have to accept the suggestion from the list and then Tab but it
> populated with an autofill of memo, amounts, et cetera from my last
> transaction with the same Description.
>
> I'll add here that I use GnuCash with old paper and pen habits, that is,
> I use the 'Description' field as strictly a 'Payee/Payor' field. Actual
> descriptive information I put in the Notes and/or Memo fields. (Notes
> for the whole transaction, Memos for things specific to a split) That
> usage greatly simplifies my Description list. It may not suit everyone
> of course.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 6/29/23 10:42 AM, Dustin Henning 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.
>
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