On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 19:04, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > On Jun 6, 2019, at 12:40 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Adrien, > > > > Looking at your comments, I have two questions. > > > > 1. Does SQLite not allow pending edits at all? or is it after every > > keystroke? How do you avoid accidental deletions? > > Not sure specifically what you mean by ‘pending edits'. I think writes are > supposed to be instant, but I haven’t tested exactly how ‘instant’ —as by > keystroke, Tab, or Enter as a commit. I don’t know that I’ve accidentally > deleted something critical, certainly not an entire transaction. I might have > inadvertently changed an account assignment to something I didn’t want, or > selected an entire memo and deleted it when I only wanted to delete a portion > of it, but that is an easy fix, especially as I’ll notice it immediately. (I > wish CMD-Z ‘undo’ worked though - since it doesn’t, perhaps writes are by > keystroke?) As long as the app is still open, I just make any changes I need. > I’m not prevented from doing so. (I also keep the app open 24/7 and only > close to do an update of GC itself, or the OS)
I believe the transaction is not saved until you hit that last Enter key to do it. There is, after all, a Cancel button at the top that allows one to revert the transaction being edited back to what it was originally. Colin _______________________________________________ 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.
