Autofill behavior

[Gregg Nemas]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:02 PM Gregg Nemas <gnemas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been experimenting with KMyMoney 5.0.6 to see how it works. I've noticed
> a strange behavior in the way it handles autofill in the ledger.
>
> I have the default autofill settings ("Same Transaction...").
>
> I Start a new file and create a single Checking account with
> categories from KMyMoney 0.8
>
> I click on the Checking link to open the ledger.
>
> I start a new transaction, enter Payee Starbucks, and answer "Yes"
> when prompted if I want to create a new Payee, and then tab over to
> the amount and enter 25.00. This is my first entry.
>
> I then start a new transaction. I see that KMyMoney has already
> entered and selected "Starbucks" as the payee. I then press <tab>
> thinking it will offer to autofill the other fields, but it doesn't.
>
> The same thing happens if I backspace over the pre-entered Starbucks
> and manually start typing Sta. When I press <tab>, it autocompletes
> Starbucks but does not pop up the autofill window. If instead of
> pressing <tab>, I press the down-arrow and then enter, it will then
> offer to autofill.
>
> However, after entering a different payee, I noticed that I did not
> have to use the down-arrow to get the autofill to work with Starbucks.
> Just pressing <tab> would open the autofill window, but this would not
> work for the newly created payee.
>
> I also noticed that in some cases, when the <tab> does not autofill,
> clicking into the blank Memo field and then back to the payee field
> would cause <tab> to perform the autofill.
>
> Is there a well-defined logic to this?
>
> Thanks.

I should have added that I entered a category of "Food:Dining Out".

Gregg