[GNC] Split accounts not auto-filled

[Peter West]

It is my fervent hope that a fix to this behaviour will also fix this problem reported on the 22nd of December.
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2024-December/114753.html
This problem doubles (at least) my data entry time.

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Peter West
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> On 6 Jan 2025, at 8:28 AM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/5/25 11:13 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>> When entering a transaction with many splits (a credit card statement),
>> GnuCash has stopped auto-filling the split account, even when it auto-
>> completes the description.
>> Anyone else seeing this?  Any idea how to restore the auto-fill
>> behavior?
>> (I am using GnuCash 5.10 on Fedora 41.)
> 
> I found the commit that introduced the issue.
> 
> commit ae8bb62dc50ca3c6a8460f51e4d9ecf2dcc93e17 (HEAD)
> Author: Robert Fewell <14uBobIT at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri Oct 11 10:21:46 2024 +0100
> 
> Bug 799430 - Type-Ahead feature lost account setting functionality
> 
> When using split autocomplete, the transfer account was not being set
> due to a change in xaccSplitGetSharePrice in 4.10 that return 0 instead
> of 1 when there is no price so reflect this change in the following
> function gnc_find_split_in_trans_by_memo
> 
> I have opened https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799510 to track
> it.
> 
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