[GNC] Porting Auto Completion from v4 to v5

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

John, 

So the reports of others on the list (https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-September/108792.html, e.g.)-- that auto complete resets with version 5 and previously-saved completion data is not retained-- are erroneous. I wonder what caused them to reach their conclusions.

⁣David T. ​

On Sep 14, 2023, 10:02 PM, at 10:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>Then go look for yourself: Open your data file in a text editor and
>search for a transaction description. Lines beginning with
><trn:description> are the description part of a transaction. See if you
>find the text anywhere else.
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls
>
>
>> On Sep 14, 2023, at 10:37 AM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> 
>> Oh. OK. 
>> 
>> But that doesn't match up with the assertions that users have made
>that the auto complete "resets" with the new version of GnuCash. If the
>auto complete feature is regenerated as you state, then that wouldn't
>be happening. An upgraded install would have a complete auto complete
>data set based on existing data. Others have said that this isn't the
>case, though. 
>> 
>> So, I don't know whose experience is more true. 
>> 
>> David T.
>> On Sep 14, 2023, at 8:20 PM, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  On Sep 13, 2023, at 21:01, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
><gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>  
>>  Hello, 
>>  
>>  In another thread, it was noted that the latest version of auto
>complete in version 5 of GnuCash restarts the auto completion data
>store. That gave me pause, as I make use of the feature extensively to
>speed the entry of transactions for a large number of stocks and mutual
>funds. (I start each transaction with the ticker symbol, making each
>very quick to enter) 
>>  
>>  As a non programmer, I wonder idly whether there would be some way
>of grabbing the information out of the earlier copy, and pushing that
>data into the newer version. It would certainly help my use case. 
>>  
>>  Could a normal (well, on some levels) person actually locate this
>data store in a file somehow, and then-- oh, I don't know-- copy and
>paste that information into another file to jumpstart their 5.x
>experience? 
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> The auto-completion data store is not and never has been saved. It's
>generated from the transaction and current-account-split text fields
>when you open a register tab.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls