[GNC] New Autocomplete in 2025

[David T.]

While I like this particular behavior in the Transfer column, I find it annoying in the Description (and therefore the transaction auto fill) column. I had worked out a reliable and quick way to enter stock transactions in my brokerage account whereby the dividend description began with the ticker symbol ("MSFT Dividend"). This made it a matter of just a few keys to autofill a new transaction (M-S tab new amount enter), which I could do rapidly. 

Now, I type the same characters, and I get every transaction with MS somewhere in it, and I have to type more just to eliminate the false hits. 

I also don't like the insistence of the autofill-- by which I mean if I have an existing transaction whose description needs to be changed, the autofill dialog can pop up and overwrite the existing data unless I explicitly choose Don't.

David T.


On January 20, 2026 8:14:05 PM GMT+05:30, "Jerry Criswell (JC)" <jcriswell58 at gmail.com> wrote:
>You do know that when you start the autocomplete field, you don't have to start at the beginning of the string you expect to end up with don't you? Example: When I enter a transaction to Liabilities/JC Mastercard, I start typing Master,  Somewhere around "ter" the desired entry pops up by itself.
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>JC
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>On 1/19/26 5:00 PM, Julie Watson wrote:
>> I understand what you mean, and thank you.  My descriptions are more
>> standardized, though.
>> 
>> I'd never tried to turn off  autocomplete until today.     OMG, you can't.
>>   You cannot turn off autocomplete.
>> 
>> This is the first bad thing I've encountered with GnuCash.   Now, I do not
>> use it for AP/AR or Payroll at all.  I also don't export anything to a
>> QuickBooks file.   Hell, I copy and paste from GnuCash into Excel,  and
>> don't export to it.    I've used GnuCash to categorize my transactions and
>> reconcile my accounts since 2009.  It's great for that!!!!  But the new
>> features of autocomplete are not great; I do not need to see a list of
>> every transaction that could possibly match what I'm typing.
>> 
>> Yergh.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Julie Watson
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 12:25 PM R Losey<rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Julie, I don't know of a way to  turn it off, but maybe you could get
>>> creative with the Payee? I've started to do things like "Amazon-Tools",
>>> "Amazon-Personal" and "Amazon-refund" -- more typing to find a unique
>>> match, but easier to find what I want. It doesn't lessen the list, until
>>> there is more typing, unfortunately.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 8:13 PM Julie Watson<julierwatson at gmail.com>
>>> 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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