[GNC] New Autocomplete in 2025

[Tom Route36]

Julie,

I have one idea that might partially help.  I don't know of a way to 
limit the number of suggestions that Autocomplete presents now.  But to 
stop Autocomplete from actually trying to ENTER (or "go with") one of 
its suggestions you can do this:

BEFORE you start typing anything in the Description field, first arrow 
down to the Notes field and type in anything there that you might want 
as your note for the transaction.  THEN arrow back up to the STILL BLANK 
Description field and start typing.  Autocomplete will still offer you 
that big list of suggestions as you're typing. But since you've already 
entered SOMETHING into the Notes field, Autocomplete will now only show 
you suggestions for the Description field.  It won't try to recall and 
enter any of your previous transactions.

I know that's not a fix for what you don't like about Autocomplete; but 
at least it should prevent any unintended re-entry of an earlier 
transaction.

Tom


On 1/18/2026 6:05 PM, Julie Watson wrote:
> I enjoyed the autocomplete function in GnuCash prior to 2025. Autocomplete
> would show just one transaction, the last transaction in that account, and
> that's it. Now, it finds every transaction in that account that could
> possibly be related to what I am typing. It's very overwhelming, and
> sometimes Autocomplete goes with one of it's suggestions instead of what
> I'm typing.
>
> My question is can I go back to having autocomplete just show one
> transaction and not a whole bunch?
>
> Best,
> Julie Watson
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