[GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

[Adrien Monteleone]

The 'not related to a bug' is literally that — a change that didn't have 
a formal bug report as documentation.

That doesn't mean it wasn't designed to fix an otherwise 'undocumented' 
bug, or in the case of the accelerators, to head one off due to other 
changes outside of GnuCash control. But it could indeed just be an 
improvement in the software.

In their cleaning up of the codebase (and other duties) the devs 
routinely find things that need fixing but that no one has reported yet. 
Usually these are just code improvements, but sometimes, they involve 
things that aren't really working as expected/intended. You'll see those 
listed under 'not related to a bug'.

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As for auto-completion, other than having to retype memos from before 
5.x, I don't have an issue with it at all.

But that might be due to how I treat 'Descriptions', which is as a 
literal payee/payor, and *not* what the transaction is for. I use the 
Notes field for that info, and Memo fields for line item detail. Thus I 
quite possibly have an easier time of auto-completing my Descriptions 
than others.

I might also be lucky that my Payee/Payor Descriptions rarely have more 
than 2–3 similar letter sequences, so my lists to choose from are either 
non-existent or very short.

I don't know how you or others use the Description field, but if you do 
similar as I do, your odds of having issue with the feature aren't 
likely to be high for the same reason(s). Of course, 5.4 will be out 
soon enough.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/13/23 1:29 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> Thanks! But that change is in release notes for 4.9, i.,e. the
> pre-release 5.x, so that wouldn't be relevant to 4.14, right? And the
> change is marked as not related to a bugfix.
> 
> So I'm still confused. Was there a bug in 4.14's handling of accelerator
> keys in accelerator-map, or wasn't there?
> 
> I'm reluctant to upgrade to 5.3 because of the auto-completion issues
> with transactions, which I understand will be fixed in 5.4. If it really
> means no customizable accelerator keys in 4.14, I'll live with that. But
> I'd at least like to be sure that's what it means.