Hi David, Thanks for the tip, I've never noticed it on the Edit menu. I see it seems to return all accounts that contain the search target no matter what level in the account string and also returns partial matches :-). My searching is generally limited to using the Find dialogue which unfortunately doesn't include a search history so if I get the asset/liability/whatever that I'm searching in wrong I then have to try another one and retype what I've recently entered.
Cheers David H. On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 20:30, david whiting <d...@davidwhiting.me.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
