Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread david whiting
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

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread David H
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 unfortunat

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I don’t think that is a feature of GnuCash. I think it belongs to GTK. It seems to work similar to Find-in-page of browser windows. It will only search what is visible in the tab, so a collapsed part of the tree won’t be found. A keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse all would be nice to go alon

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread jeanl
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > It has a usability bug. If you want to search for something else, such as > if you misspelled your term, you have to highlight the text to delete it > and then type something different. The backspace key (delete on MacOS) > doesn’t work. This might just be a Mac thing th

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread David H
Doesn't work on my Mac either - Catalina maybe ??? Cheers David. On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 07:18, jeanl wrote: > Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > > It has a usability bug. If you want to search for something else, such as > > if you misspelled your term, you have to highlight the text to delete it > >

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread jean
I'm on Mojave, where it works... On 3/15/20 2:30 PM, David H wrote: Doesn't work on my Mac either - Catalina maybe ??? Cheers David. On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 07:18, jeanl > wrote: Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote > It has a usability bug. If you want to search for so

Re: [GNC-dev] Question about account list and typeahead

2020-03-15 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I am on Catalina as well. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 15, 2020 w12d75, at 4:30 PM, David H wrote: > > Doesn't work on my Mac either - Catalina maybe ??? > > Cheers David. > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 07:18, jeanl wrote: > >> Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote >>> It has a usability bug. If you want to se