[GNC] Jump to account in the Accounts pane

[Kalpesh Patel]

You can also provide additional unique characters (at the beginning or the end) to the name of the account for each, which then can be used to jump to it directly.  For example suffix CC accounts with last four digits of the card number and then using those four numbers to recall the full account.


-----Original Message-----
From: R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 1:29 PM
To: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <stan+gc at fastmail.fm>
Cc: Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>; GnuCash User List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Jump to account in the Accounts pane

You can also assign account codes and search with them... you can thus have them be distinct and jump right to the one you want.

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Thanks, Geoff! Up and down arrows work in 4.15 as well, and found all 
> three of my accounts with "water" in their names.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
>
> On 2025-05-12 17:49, Geoff wrote:
> > Hi Stan
> >
> > I am running 5.8 on Windows 10.  Using your example, if I type in 
> > "water" then hit down arrow it jumps to the next account with 
> > "water" in its name, and if I hit up arrow if jumps to the previous one.
> >
> > Thanks for letting me know about this nifty feature!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Geoff
> > =====
> >
> > On 13/05/2025 10:39 am, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> >> I like the feature of the Accounts pane that you can type part of 
> >> an account name to jump to the account whose name contains that text.
> >>
> >> But sometimes two accounts contain the same text. For instance, I 
> >> have Water Deposit (an Asset) and Water (an Expense). When I type 
> >> "Water", I get the asset, presumably because it occurs earlier in 
> >> the list. Is there some keystroke that will move me from the 
> >> matching account I don't want to open just now to the one I do?
> >>
> >> I know, I could always rename the expense Water Usage and then type 
> >> "Water U". But that seems kind of clunky, and I'm hoping there's a 
> >> better way to select the desired account.
> >>
> >> In case it matters, I have "Only display leaf account names" ticked 
> >> in Edit » Preferences » Register Defaults.
> >>
> >> Please note: I'm in 4.14. If there's no solution in 4.14 but there 
> >> _is_ one in 5.x, I'd like to know about it, please.
> >>
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