Hi, I remember that I had the same behaviour some time ago, but right now it works as it should.
I can't tell what caused the changed, but I suspect it was the update to SuSE 7.3. Herbert. Dave Peticolas schrieb: > > On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 11:38, Christian Stimming wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > I've noticed this for a few weeks now, so eventually I should ask: > > > > Has there been any change in the account name completion behaviour? Scenario: > > I enter a transaction in the register. During this action I try to enter an > > account. Gnucash does an account name completion, plus when I type the > > account seperator character, it completes the top-level account's name and > > presents me the account name of the lower level. This used to mean that for > > the account Assets:Checking:MyBank I needed to type (provided there were no > > ambiguity) 'a' ':' 'c' ':' 'm' and I'm done. > > > > It used to be this way until and including the last stable release IIRC > > (1.6.5). But since then there showed up a change in the stable CVS branch > > that made this way of entering account names more difficult. Namely, typing > > the ':' character kept one character marked too much: Before, typing 'a' ':' > > made Gnucash to complete 'Asset:---' and keeping the '---' part marked, but > > NOT the ':' character. This way, typing the first letter of the subaccount > > (here a 'c') made Gnucash to complete the name of the subaccount. The way of > > right now is different: Typing an 'a' ':' makes Gnucash to complete > > 'Asset:---' but keeping the ':---' part marked, that is, INCLUDING the > > colon! If I then type the first letter of the subaccount, the replacing > > makes 'Asset:---' change into 'Assetc' and I can't reach the subaccount > > anymore, unless I type a backspace and delete the character from the wrong > > place. > > > > This is annoying. Was there a good reason for this change that I missed? Did > > anybody else notice this behaviour? Or is the error in my installation? > > I don't recall such a change being made. I cannot repeat this > on my own system (I can still do <letter> ':' <letter> ... and > gnucash doesn't highlite the colon. Has anything about your account > names changed recently? > > dave > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Weichselgarten3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
