Re: [GNC] About auto-completion
I would like to search both ways. I am not certain if this facility exists or not for this specific case but perhaps anchors, similar to regex anchors, can be used to tell parser/searcher to either do at certain place like '^Chase' would entail looking for an account that ONLY starts with Chase while 'Chase' would mean any account containing Chase (including starting with). Dollar sign ($) would operate in similar fashion for ending in. If this can be extended to any search, like description, memo, etc., even better. If aim is to fully satisfy all variations across the universe, full regex based searching might be in order. -Original Message- From: Sherman Yoder Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 8:39 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] About auto-completion I love the "search throughout" feature. i am the treasurer of a foreign mission, and we track expenses by missionary family. All I have to do is to type in "david" and up come David's housing, transportation, and support accounts. That's so much nicer than typing Expenses:Housing:David, and so on. I hope this feature doesn't go away. Sherman On 8/14/2023 7:26 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my search. Thanks for posting, David. I was blinkered by what I was used to, but I think you're right, it's just a matter of training myself to type something unique from the interior when starting at the beginning would come up with the account I didn't want. All my accounts payable begin with "AP ", and all my accounts receivable with "AR ". Maybe I should move those to the end of the account names. I'll think on that for a while. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA [1]https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list [2]gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: [3]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. References 1. https://BrownMath.com/ 2. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 3. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] About auto-completion
Stan, the old method of typing separators still exists. Regards, Adrien On 8/14/23 6:26 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my search. Thanks for posting, David. I was blinkered by what I was used to, but I think you're right, it's just a matter of training myself to type something unique from the interior when starting at the beginning would come up with the account I didn't want. All my accounts payable begin with "AP ", and all my accounts receivable with "AR ". Maybe I should move those to the end of the account names. I'll think on that for a while. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] About auto-completion
I love the "search throughout" feature. i am the treasurer of a foreign mission, and we track expenses by missionary family. All I have to do is to type in "david" and up come David's housing, transportation, and support accounts. That's so much nicer than typing Expenses:Housing:David, and so on. I hope this feature doesn't go away. Sherman On 8/14/2023 7:26 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my search. Thanks for posting, David. I was blinkered by what I was used to, but I think you're right, it's just a matter of training myself to type something unique from the interior when starting at the beginning would come up with the account I didn't want. All my accounts payable begin with "AP ", and all my accounts receivable with "AR ". Maybe I should move those to the end of the account names. I'll think on that for a while. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA [1]https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list [2]gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: [3]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. References 1. https://BrownMath.com/ 2. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 3. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] About auto-completion
On 2023-08-14 16:19, David Carlson wrote: > I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took > me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the > short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner > very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several > introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my > search. Thanks for posting, David. I was blinkered by what I was used to, but I think you're right, it's just a matter of training myself to type something unique from the interior when starting at the beginning would come up with the account I didn't want. All my accounts payable begin with "AP ", and all my accounts receivable with "AR ". Maybe I should move those to the end of the account names. I'll think on that for a while. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] About auto-completion
I wish to support the 'search throughout' method. I admit that it took me several seconds to get used to it but it reduces the size of the short list of partial matches very quickly until I can pick the winner very easily. Since I am now expecting it I don't have to type several introductory characters before typing the real meaty characters of my search. On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 2:53 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > I know there's been a lot of controversy about auto-completion in GC > 5.x. I'm waiting for 5.4 to finish my upgrade, but have been using 4.14 > for a week or so now. One thing I just noticed is that, on the accounts > tab, when I type the first few letters of an account name it now matches > the first account name that _contains_ those letters, not necessarily at > the beginning as in GC 2.x. > > Personally, I prefer matches to be done only at the start of account > names, not in the middle. But I'm sure here are others who prefer them > in the middle (which re4ally means matching anywhere). > > I wonder if it could make sense to have an option for matching account > names at the beginning or anywhere, and a similar option the same for > matching to descriptions when auto-filling transactions. That would > please the maximum number of people, if it's not too difficult to > implement. > > -- > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > ___ > 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. > -- 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] About auto-completion
I know there's been a lot of controversy about auto-completion in GC 5.x. I'm waiting for 5.4 to finish my upgrade, but have been using 4.14 for a week or so now. One thing I just noticed is that, on the accounts tab, when I type the first few letters of an account name it now matches the first account name that _contains_ those letters, not necessarily at the beginning as in GC 2.x. Personally, I prefer matches to be done only at the start of account names, not in the middle. But I'm sure here are others who prefer them in the middle (which re4ally means matching anywhere). I wonder if it could make sense to have an option for matching account names at the beginning or anywhere, and a similar option the same for matching to descriptions when auto-filling transactions. That would please the maximum number of people, if it's not too difficult to implement. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ 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.
