I figured as much, but suggested it anyway at least as a temporary workaround. I do see the utility of an edit-only tab.
Regards, Adrien > On Jun 7, 2019, at 8:37 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Returning to Adrien's comment on my Edit window Suggestion: > > >> Finally, I will throw out a radical suggestion that all edits get their own > >> new window instead of happening within a certain register view with a > >> certain "anchor" account which has special behavior compared to other split > >> lines. This Edit window would not be tied to any account and would be > >> obviously not saved as long as it exists. > >> > > This already exists as the ‘General Journal’ (Tools menu) It’s your choice > > to use it. Though it is not implemented for only the currently edited > > transactions, but the entirety of your data file. > > > > My reasoning for suggesting a dedicated edit window for each transaction edit > is to serve a completely different purpose than that served by the General > Journal, but it may share some code in an implementation. If each > transaction edit was in it's own dedicated window, they would all be very > easy to find and commit or cancel at a later time. Then the possible > ambiguity of having some pending edits in search windows or the General > Ledger would also be avoided. There may be a better coding technique to > implement this, especially in SQL, so I do not want to be so specific to > prevent the developers from thinking creatively in an implementation. > > > David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
