[GNC] New Autocomplete in 2025

[Julie Watson]

Thanks, Tom.   It's not what I'm looking for, but it certainly is an option
😊😊

Best,
Julie Watson


On Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 2:18 AM Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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