Working as intended here on Windows 10, will also try Win 11 shortly, no freezing, gibberish works also :-)
Cheers David H. On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 at 11:54, David Cousens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
