Thanks, Tom. It's not what I'm looking for, but it certainly is an option 😊😊
Best, Julie Watson On Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 2:18 AM Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote: > Julie, > > I have one idea that might partially help. I don't know of a way to limit > the number of suggestions that Autocomplete presents now. But to stop > Autocomplete from actually trying to ENTER (or "go with") one of its > suggestions you can do this: > > BEFORE you start typing anything in the Description field, first arrow > down to the Notes field and type in anything there that you might want as > your note for the transaction. THEN arrow back up to the STILL BLANK > Description field and start typing. Autocomplete will still offer you that > big list of suggestions as you're typing. But since you've already entered > SOMETHING into the Notes field, Autocomplete will now only show you > suggestions for the Description field. It won't try to recall and enter > any of your previous transactions. > > I know that's not a fix for what you don't like about Autocomplete; but at > least it should prevent any unintended re-entry of an earlier transaction. > > Tom > > > On 1/18/2026 6:05 PM, Julie Watson wrote: > > I enjoyed the autocomplete function in GnuCash prior to 2025. Autocomplete > would show just one transaction, the last transaction in that account, and > that's it. Now, it finds every transaction in that account that could > possibly be related to what I am typing. It's very overwhelming, and > sometimes Autocomplete goes with one of it's suggestions instead of what > I'm typing. > > My question is can I go back to having autocomplete just show one > transaction and not a whole bunch? > > Best, > Julie Watson > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing [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.
