Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Currently however, when you delete a 'transaction' in the register,
> you are really deleting the split. Thus, if you delete Split 1 from
> your Checking account, Split 2 remains in the Fuel account. The
> transaction is now unbalanced, because it doesn't add up to 0.
I'm with the other Rob here :> This seems like a bug (or a misfeature)
unless I'm misunderstanding. If I delete a split, I expect *both
sides* of the split to disappear. If I delete a transaction, I expect
all the splits to disappear. The alternatives make no sense to me and
will screw up everyone's data. The current code really handles
deletes like this? I though I had checked this a while back and it
worked (IMO) "right".
> 2. If you're in single or double mode, or you're on the
> 'transaction' line in multi-mode, the delete command deletes the
> whole transaction and all its splits. But if you're on a split line
> in multi-mode, delete just deletes the one split.
I was fully under the delusion that this was how it worked *now*.
Perhaps I checked the Lesstif version. Is the GNOME one different in
this respect? If so, it sounds like I'm going to have to spend some
time trying to figure out if my data has been "broken" by improper
deletes. :<
I expected that a delete from transaction line would *always* delete
the entire transaction (and all its splits), and that a delete from a
normal split line (i.e. not a collapsed multi-split placeholder line)
would delete that split, and if it's the last split, would delete the
whole transaction. I'd also expect that the confirmation dialogs
for the delete would describe exactly what's going to happen.
The only question to me is what should happen if you have a
multi-split transaction, the register is in single line-mode, the
cursor is on the single "psudo-split" line for the transaction, and
the user requests a delete. In that case, I'd probably want to see a
dialog saying, "This transaction has hidden split lines. Should I
delete all of these splits?". If the user says yes, then we should
either delete the entire transaction, and all of the splits, or we
should delete all of the splits and place the cursor on a new blank,
uncommitted split line for that transaction. The latter approach lets
you select the transaction to delete the transaction, and the
collapsed split line to just delete all the splits...
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