[GNC] Auto-complete of Memo field suffers short term memory

[Adrien Monteleone]

I've noticed this strange problem after upgrading to 5.0 and the issue 
persists through 5.4.

I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this:

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799133

(I think the problem has been somewhat noted in another thread, but I 
can't find it)

Before 5.x, if I started typing text in a Memo field, it would 
auto-complete with text that matched from a previous transaction's Memo 
fields and would also auto-assign the account. This was very useful for 
recording recurring line items, even if they were parts of transactions 
with different Descriptions.

Now, this behavior is mostly gone.

I have seen some Memos auto-complete in 5.x, but only if I've used that 
Memo text in a transaction since the upgrade, and oddly, sometimes, even 
if I have used that text in a recent transaction, it might not 
auto-complete.

It is as if the Memo auto-complete can't see older transaction Memo 
fields from before the upgrade, and only occasionally sees Memos from 
transactions since the upgrade. Having a matching Description doesn't 
seem to matter either.


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Regards,
Adrien