[GNC] Search and Replace

[Vincent Dawans]

I personally think it would be easier to keep track of enhancement requests
via the bug tracking system. https://bugs.gnucash.org/

You can select "enhancement" under the "severity" option when creating a
"bug". Also it helps to start the description with  "RFE:" which stands for
"request for enhancement" to make it easier to search or more obvious this
is not a "bug".

Because enhancements can take years to implement (if ever) due to time and
resource constraints, I feel we lose a lot of valuable feedback in terms of
use case and functionality when it is only discussed in the mailing list.
It doesn't mean it cannot be discussed here to try to get more users to
provide feedback, but then important points or conclusions should be posted
as comments in the bug database so that they can be referred to easily even
years later. I certainly try to do that with my own comments and see others
do as well.

As for the 2 ideas in this thread:
- the undo feature (beyond the cancel). There is already an RFE for this
here https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509267 so it would be good to
review what's already there and put new ideas, which can be discussed there
or here in the mailing list
- the original search and replace. A quick search doesn't return anything.
There is a somewhat related one but it's not quite the same
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680764 So possibly creating a new
RFE there and try to get people to react to it by posting here on the
mailing list?


On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 11:36 AM AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:

> I'm a bit disappointed that this thread went off in a different
> direction and never addressed actual search and replace.
>
> Is it even on the roadmap or do I still have to resort to butchering the
> XML file?
>
> On 2023-04-29 10:58, Stan Brown wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2023-04-29 08:32, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> >> On your second point, there’s also  menu option Transaction-> Cancel>
> Transaction to undo any unwanted changes.
> >
> > I was unaware that this existed. The description in the help manual
> > makes it sound just like clicking Delete on an unfinished transaction.
> >
> > By experiment I found that Cancel Transaction doesn't do anything on a
> > transaction that has been committed with the Enter key. Is that the only
> > difference between Cancel and Delete, or are there others?
> >
>
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