Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-28 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 12/28/22 14:05, Stan Brown wrote: It's a bit irritating to be told that something is preventing save, but not told what that something is. (Reminds me of the story, hopefully apocryphal, of a C compiler that had only one error message, "Syntax Error", with no indication of where.) Saw that

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-28 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-12-28 13:09, David Carlson wrote: > Over the years I have filed more than one bug report looking at various > aspects of the issue of not being able to ascertain which pending edit was > preventing the manual file save action, but today I was only able to find > this one:

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-28 Thread David Carlson
Over the years I have filed more than one bug report looking at various aspects of the issue of not being able to ascertain which pending edit was preventing the manual file save action, but today I was only able to find this one: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051. There should be

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-28 Thread R Losey
There are times when I want to check the accounts list in the middle of entering a transaction, and I have occasionally (to verify amounts) wanted to check with another register. I'd be okay with the change below as long as there were three, not two choices: 1) Save changes 2) Discard the

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-27 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I occasionally look at other registers and may even do Finds before committing a transaction. I do get a warning about wanting to save changes if I attempt to exit the register being edited, attempt to edit an already committed transaction in two different registers at once, or when exiting

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-27 Thread Geoff
I disagree, I find this feature quite useful from time to time. Regards Geoff = On 28/12/2022 12:05 pm, William Prescott wrote: Let me guess: you looked in the other register before you had committed the transaction. Yes, you are probably right That highlights a point about

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-27 Thread William Prescott
> >> Let me guess: you looked in the other register before you had committed >> the transaction. > > > Yes, you are probably right > That highlights a point about Gnucash function that I find annoying. It will let you switch registers in the middle of editing a transaction, leaving the