Steve, There is AFAIK no general way to turn off auto-completion but when it is initiated and highlights a transaction which it thinks is a match, there is a popup "Don't autocomplete" above that first matching transaction which allows you to choose not to autocomplete by clicking on it. The behaviour you describe with "A-T" and "U-Z" doesn't occur in V5.3 built on Linux (Mint 21.3) so it may be a Windows library problem rather than the GnuCash code itself.
You could raise a feature bug requesting the option of disabling autocompletion completely or even on a register by register basis. David Cousens On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 18:15 -0700, Steve Miller wrote: > Window 11 user here. I finally upgraded to the 5 series, 5.3 specifically. > It all works great EXCEPT the autofill on the description in the register. > I wish there was an option in the preferences to turn that OFF. > > I've spent more time playing around with that than I care to remember... > things I experience with it? > > If I type any letter A-T, the list of prior descriptions pops up, but if I > type a letter U-Z it freezes. > > if I type gibberish really fast when I get into the description box, I can > make the gibberish appear (not that that is useful!) > > But if i try to type anything else, it generally (85%) of the time, will > freeze when I get to the second letter. Then i have to delete the entry. > > I've tried re-downloading 5.3, I've tried re-starting GnuCash repeatedly, > I've rebooted, I've changed the size of window for GnuCash, so I dunno, I'm > about to go back to version 4.14 or whatever I've been using for past > several years. > > I just wish there was a way to switch that "feature" off... I can't get it > consistently, or most of the time to work. I'm quite happy manually typing > in descriptions... > _______________________________________________ > 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.
