The 'not related to a bug' is literally that — a change that didn't have a formal bug report as documentation.

That doesn't mean it wasn't designed to fix an otherwise 'undocumented' bug, or in the case of the accelerators, to head one off due to other changes outside of GnuCash control. But it could indeed just be an improvement in the software.

In their cleaning up of the codebase (and other duties) the devs routinely find things that need fixing but that no one has reported yet. Usually these are just code improvements, but sometimes, they involve things that aren't really working as expected/intended. You'll see those listed under 'not related to a bug'.

----
As for auto-completion, other than having to retype memos from before 5.x, I don't have an issue with it at all.

But that might be due to how I treat 'Descriptions', which is as a literal payee/payor, and *not* what the transaction is for. I use the Notes field for that info, and Memo fields for line item detail. Thus I quite possibly have an easier time of auto-completing my Descriptions than others.

I might also be lucky that my Payee/Payor Descriptions rarely have more than 2–3 similar letter sequences, so my lists to choose from are either non-existent or very short.

I don't know how you or others use the Description field, but if you do similar as I do, your odds of having issue with the feature aren't likely to be high for the same reason(s). Of course, 5.4 will be out soon enough.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/13/23 1:29 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
Thanks! But that change is in release notes for 4.9, i.,e. the
pre-release 5.x, so that wouldn't be relevant to 4.14, right? And the
change is marked as not related to a bugfix.

So I'm still confused. Was there a bug in 4.14's handling of accelerator
keys in accelerator-map, or wasn't there?

I'm reluctant to upgrade to 5.3 because of the auto-completion issues
with transactions, which I understand will be fixed in 5.4. If it really
means no customizable accelerator keys in 4.14, I'll live with that. But
I'd at least like to be sure that's what it means.

_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
gnucash-user@gnucash.org
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

Reply via email to