Thanks Geert, My understanding now is that 3.7 will not *Copy* or *Cut* a complete transaction line whereas previous versions did. A plus I got out of this is that *Duplicate* is a more efficient method for my needs. Cheers
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:08 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op zondag 15 december 2019 15:29:56 CET schreef Tony Vanson: > > A bit further to my mystery - the first time I open a register, and the > > blank line on the bottom, with just the current date, is highlighted by > > default, *Cut *and *Copy *are active and I can in fact use them, however > if > > I highlight a line with transactions, *Cut *and *Copy *are greyed out. In > > all instances *Paste *is available? Any ideas welcome. > > Cheers > > > Ok, so I have opened gnucash to verify what you are describing. > > It does exactly what you say and in fact that is also what it is expected > to > do by design. > > Here's the explanation: the "Copy" and "Cut" menu items serve to copy or > cut > simple bits of text, not full transactions or splits. There are other > commands > for copying complete splits and transactions as someone else suggested > earlier > in this thread. > > When you open a register gnucash will highlight the date of the blank > transaction (that is, it's selected). With some text being selected, the > edit > menu will offer you two commands to copy or cut this text. > > When you then click somewhere in any other field, that field's content > won't > be selected, but the cursor will simply be set to where you clicked. As > there's not text selection, there's nothing to copy or cut, so the two > menu > items are disabled. > > I believe some of the early gnucash versions in the 3 series behaved > slightly > differently. A click in any field would first select the full contents of > that > field. Only a second click in the field would unselect the contents and > insert > the cursor on the click. This was removed as it was more frequently > annoying > than helpful. It's generally more common to want to set the cursor where > you > click than to want to select the whole field on a click. > > Hopefully this explains the mystery for you. > > Regards, > > Geert > > > -- *Tony Vanson* *The older I get,* *the better I was* _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
