I think we have a bit of apples and oranges going on here. The original question, if I recall correctly, was about how to revert unintended typing in an existing transaction. We seem to have shifted now to talking about creating new transactions. I'm not surprised that the two behave differently.
Just for the record, I noticed some time ago that clicking on the "n" in the R[econciliation] column of a register would change it to a "c", but if I then clicked the "n" in the next transaction the new "c" would change back to an "n". (I'm not talking about the dedicated Reconciliation window, but an account register in Basic view.) It's necessary to commit the transaction first to save the change to the R column. When Gyle posted the query I then verified that any change to the fields description or account or amount would also either revert silently or pop up a dialog if I simply clicked on a different transaction. That said, I now think it's simplest to follow the rule "hit Enter to commit the changes to the transaction; click Cancel to revert them." Just for fun I tried deleting a split in the General Journal, then clicking Cancel. The deleted split was restored, as I had hoped. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2025-10-07 22:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I just tested this on 5.12 with a detailed auto-filled transaction, > making test edits and clicking into another transaction. > > I deleted the memo, account, and amount from a split line but didn't use > the 'delete split' function. > > The result was deleting the split, with an added one to the Imbalance > account for the missing amount. (the auto-fill transaction was balanced) > > Removing any combination of Memo/Account/Amount but not all three, > resulted in the changes being reverted. > > In each test, clicking into a different transaction *committed* the > improperly edited one. It did not go away. > > The only way to do that is either let it commit and delete it, or use > Transaction > Cancel Transaction or the Cancel button. _______________________________________________ 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.
