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

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

Thanks, Adrien. I understand what you're saying: a bug may have been
noticed, and fixed, as part of other coding before there was ever a
report in the database. That makes sense to me.

I don't use Notes at all -- force of habit, mainly, since it's only a
couple of months ago that I knew such a thing existed. My Description
lines mostly look like
	thing: vendor
and then most of my Memo items are empty.

I think I'll wait for 5.4. I haven't checked the chronology, but it
can't be too far away now.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-09-13 11:59, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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'.
> 
> ----
> 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.