Add Undo Functionality
Corresponding Bugzilla item: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509267
Where's ctrl-z when you need it? There's several aspects to this. Naive undo would include being able to remove some typing or a paste operation you did to a field that you didn't intend. Sophisticated undo would let you reverse a transaction that you messed up without having to hunt for what account it's in now. Even more sophisticated might be multiple levels of both Undo and Redo, and a hint in the menu next to each about what would happen if you chose that option.
This is another simple time-saver that's probably been mentioned elsewhere but may be worth listing here for tracking purposes.
Jonathan
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ian rendak
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A simple "Esc" before pressing the "Enter" key would be a start: I find if I partially overwrite a previous entry, I can't even "cancel" the partial error by pressing "Esc" !? For instance if the date is partially bungled, "exiting" by clicking elsewhere gives the "default" date rather the previous correct entry...
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Stephen Holland M.D.
commented
bump one on this. Erroneous transaction deletes are very easy to do, and the software even lets you turn off the "are you sure" functionality.
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Tommy Trussell
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Invoking UNDO could also be a way to override autofill. Type a description, tab, autofill invoked, hit undo, and the autofill is undone but not the just-typed description. (The next undo could do that.) This is how auto-correct is often implemented in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word; the first undo just undoes the autocorrection or formatting.
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Admincstim
(Core Developer, GnuCash)
commented
As a pointer to previous discussion: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509267
Also, the suggestion is surely a good one, but in the current code base this is a very hard task.
