Stan, There doesn't seem to be an option/preference to restrict txns entered using N days before today anymore - version 4.13 of Gnucash on Windows/MacOS - presumably it's been removed as it wasn't considered very helpful or age has caught up with me and I'm slowly going blind :-)
Cheers David H. On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 02:44, Stan Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2022-12-26 16:27, David Carlson wrote: > > When entering more than one transaction in a session, new transactions > > default to the same date last used, so the existing shortcuts metioned > in a > > previous comment often work. > > I think that should be "new transactions default to the same date last > used _in_the_same_register_ in that session." At least that's been my > experience with 2.6.19, though it could have changed in later GC versions. > > > If it happens that you are editing multiple historical transactions, > they> are likely close together as well. > > And there is also the option to run a Ctrl+F query, then make any needed > edits right in the results register. That's a "live" register like any > other, not a static read-only view into the database. > > > If I had that sort of switch, I would be forgetting to reset it when > done. > > I agree wholeheartedly. Such an "switch" sounds to me like a classic > case of bloating the product with a feature of _very_ limited > applicability. > > A related feature I _would_ like to see is the ability to specify a date > range within which no new transactions could be entered. I would use > that to prevent myself from unintentionally changing transactions from > prior years. The existing mechanism, where the only form of date range > is N days before today, doesn't seem very helpful to me, since I have to > change the value of N every day. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
