That used to trip me up too, but there is now ctrl+i which pops up a dialogue to search for accounts. One minor gripe with that is that the focus is not on the search box so you have to tab twice, enter your search expression, tab, then enter. You then get a list of matching accounts and select the one you want. One advantage of this approach is that it also works from any register (but not reports), but it is not quite as fast as being able to do what you are after in the chart of accounts.
David On Sat, 14 Mar 2020, 22:53 jean, <rip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or as a workaround, could we not provide a shortcut to expand/contract > all accounts? > That way, when you start typing any account in the hierarchy would be > searched... > > J. > > On 3/14/20 12:34 PM, jeanl wrote: > > Guys, > > > > When we're in the account list view (the main gnucash page), you can > start > > typing and this will open the account list to the first matching account. > > This is very convenient to quickly access an account in a large, deep > > hierarchy. > > However if the account tree isn't expanded, its leaf accounts are not > > matched, so unless the tree is fully expanded, the type ahead account > match > > isn't terribly useful. > > > > Question: Is this on purpose? I would imagine that would not be hard to > fix, > > so there must be a reason why it hasn't been... > > > > NOTE: This has nothing to do with the PR I submitted about matching > account > > in the transaction editing dialog) > > Jean > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
