[GNC] Accidentally Typing in the Transfer Column

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

You can tell GnuCash to stop messaging you to commit a transaction when you click on another. The options include This Time, This Session, and Forever. TBH, I've never heard that a transaction would revert if you clicked out of it. 

Obviously, if you've changed the transfer to a nonexistent account, it will still stop, but if you've changed to a different (existing) account-- or changed a text field-- it would just commit it. 

⁣David T. ​

On Oct 7, 2025, 11:46 PM, at 11:46 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>On 2025-10-07 09:35, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> I typically use the Cancel option on the toolbar. Clicking on another
>> transaction might not have the desired result, if you've changed your
>> preferences in the past.
>
>Thank you for that. When I first started using GC, I didn't understand
>what the Cancel button was for, so I haven't noticed it in quite a
>while. But it's there, and it does what you say.
>
>Out of curiosity, what change of preferences would cause clicking on a
>different transaction not to either revert the previous transaction or
>ask whether to revert it?
>
>Stan Brown
>Tehachapi, CA, USA
>https://BrownMath.com