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Bug 489285 - accounts completion should operate on all path segments
accounts completion should operate on all path segments
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 129099
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Register
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Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: David Hampton
Chris Shoemaker
Depends on:
Blocks: 473506
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-23 06:58 UTC by Dirk Bergstrom
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:52 UTC
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Description Dirk Bergstrom 2007-10-23 06:58:08 UTC 
Typeahead completes on the full account name (eg. Expenses:Home:Mortgage), which makes it difficult to quickly categorize transactions.  Given that nearly everything in my Credit Card account is an Expense, it is irritating to have to type out "e-x-p-e-n-s-e-s-:-g" to get to "Groceries".  It would be great if I could just type "g-r" to get there.
Comment 1 Josh Sled 2007-10-23 15:58:59 UTC 
As a bit of a workaround, as soon as you've typed the unique prefix of Expenses (usually "ex" given we strongly suggest a top-level "Equity" account, which also starts with "e"), pressing the account separator will complete that part of the path.  Thus, you could type "e-x-:-g-:" to complete "Expenses:Groceries".
Comment 2 Dirk Bergstrom 2007-10-23 17:02:34 UTC 
That helps a lot.  However, I changed the separator (preferences:accounts:separator character) to a slash, and the completion stopped working.  I also tried a period (I want something that doesn't require the shift key), and that doesn't work either.

Oh, wait.  If I change the separator, quit gnucash, and restart it, *then* the new separator works for autocompletion.  You want I should file a bug for that?
Comment 3 Josh Sled 2007-10-23 17:47:38 UTC 
Yes, please.
Comment 4 Christian Stimming 2007-10-27 09:41:14 UTC 
Is the original bug still a problem? Or did comment#1 basically answer the question?
Comment 5 Josh Sled 2007-10-27 13:54:50 UTC 
Yes, the original bug is still valid; even if the workaround makes it easier, one should still be able to type "Gro" and have it complete to "Expenses:Groceries", imho.
Comment 6 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-10 06:58:34 UTC 
This would  help a beginner with big and complicated account trees such as the German SKR trees where it is not immediately clear where to find "Umsatzsteuer", for example.
Comment 7 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-10 12:21:58 UTC 
this is also being discussed and fixed in bug 129099

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129099 ***
Comment 8 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:52:45 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489285. Please update any external references or bookmarks.