> 3. quickfill extensions to other fields. I remembered! The
> quickfill stuff can be made broader to save even more keystrokes.
> I still have a house payment and some student loans to pay off,
> and the checks I write every month are identical every single
> time. I remember that quicken would do seeding of the debit or
> credit fields once you hit the tab key to leave the description
> field. or it might have updated the debit or credit fields as
> needed with the entries from the current quickfill, I am not sure.
> the second way saves you a keystroke, as many people could hit
> three keys to enter their rent every month. "ev|_il landlord
> goob_ _650.00_" and a RET key would take care of it all.
Yes, this is a good idea. Rob B. has proposed something like
this before. We will need to swap the xfer from field and the
description field to do this.
> 4. quickfill not getting a space in the transfer from field. Back to
> my auto categories example.
>
> Auto
> Auto: Fuel
> Auto: License
> Auto: Maintenance
>
> I will put in quotes what I type, _ characters around what is
> highlighted and | character for the cursor.
>
> I type "a" and the field reads A|_uto_
> I type "CTRL-e", and it reads Auto|
> I type ":" and it reads Auto:|_ Fuel_
>
> I expected to see Auto: |_Fuel_ since each of the completions have
> a " " in them, and they all can be completed that far. The
> savings would also be having to type a space all of the time.
> Today I typed in "a" "ctrl-e" ":" " " "m" to get "auto:
> maintenance". With this change, I would have been able to type
> "a" "ctrl-e" ":" "m" to get "auto: maintainence". In the future
> (when we know that "auto" is not a category), we will be able to
> just type in "a" "ctrl-e" "m".
I think this would be very confusing. What if you type
':' ' ' 'F' in quick succession without thinking? You
won't get a match. You would have to look at the output
every time you typed a key to see how far the completion
went. That could end up making things slower.
dave
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