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NAME
       hledger-ui - curses-style interface for the hledger accounting tool

SYNOPSIS
       hledger-ui [OPTIONS] [QUERYARGS]
       hledger ui -- [OPTIONS] [QUERYARGS]

DESCRIPTION
       hledger  is  a  cross-platform program for tracking money, time, or any
       other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a  simple,  editable
       file  format.   hledger  is  inspired  by  and  largely compatible with
       ledger(1).

       hledger-ui is hledger's curses-style interface, providing an  efficient
       full-window  text  UI  for  viewing accounts and transactions, and some
       limited data entry  capability.   It  is  easier  than  hledger's  com-
       mand-line interface, and sometimes quicker and more convenient than the
       web interface.

       Like hledger, it reads data from one or more files in hledger  journal,
       timeclock,  timedot,  or CSV format specified with -f, or $LEDGER_FILE,
       or       $HOME/.hledger.journal       (on       windows,        perhaps
       C:/Users/USER/.hledger.journal).   For  more about this see hledger(1),
       hledger_journal(5) etc.

OPTIONS
       Note: if invoking hledger-ui as a hledger subcommand, write  --  before
       options as shown above.

       Any  QUERYARGS  are interpreted as a hledger search query which filters
       the data.

       --watch
              watch for data and date changes and reload automatically

       --theme=default|terminal|greenterm
              use this custom display theme

       --register=ACCTREGEX
              start in the (first) matched account's register screen

       --change
              show period balances (changes) at startup instead of  historical
              balances

       --flat show full account names, unindented

       hledger general options:

       -h     show general usage (or after COMMAND, the command's usage)

       --help show  the  current  program's  manual as plain text (or after an
              add-on COMMAND, the add-on's manual)

       --man  show the current program's manual with man

       --info show the current program's manual with info

       --version
              show version

       --debug[=N]
              show debug output (levels 1-9, default: 1)

       -f FILE --file=FILE
              use a different input file.  For stdin, use -

       --rules-file=RULESFILE
              Conversion  rules  file  to  use  when  reading  CSV   (default:
              FILE.rules)

       --alias=OLD=NEW
              display accounts named OLD as NEW

       -I --ignore-assertions
              ignore any failing balance assertions in the journal

       hledger reporting options:

       -b --begin=DATE
              include postings/txns on or after this date

       -e --end=DATE
              include postings/txns before this date

       -D --daily
              multiperiod/multicolumn report by day

       -W --weekly
              multiperiod/multicolumn report by week

       -M --monthly
              multiperiod/multicolumn report by month

       -Q --quarterly
              multiperiod/multicolumn report by quarter

       -Y --yearly
              multiperiod/multicolumn report by year

       -p --period=PERIODEXP
              set  start date, end date, and/or reporting interval all at once
              (overrides the flags above)

       --date2
              show, and match with -b/-e/-p/date:, secondary dates instead

       -C --cleared
              include only cleared postings/txns

       --pending
              include only pending postings/txns

       -U --uncleared
              include only uncleared (and pending) postings/txns

       -R --real
              include only non-virtual postings

       --depth=N
              hide accounts/postings deeper than N

       -E --empty
              show items with zero amount, normally hidden

       -B --cost
              convert amounts to their cost at  transaction  time  (using  the
              transaction price, if any)

       -V --value
              convert  amounts  to  their  market value on the report end date
              (using the most recent applicable market price, if any)

       --pivot TAGNAME
              organize reports by some tag's value instead of by account

       --anon show anonymized accounts and payees

KEYS
       ? shows a help dialog listing all keys.  (Some of these also appear  in
       the quick help at the bottom of each screen.) Press ? again (or ESCAPE,
       or LEFT) to close it.  The following keys work on most screens:

       The cursor keys navigate: right (or enter) goes deeper, left returns to
       the  previous  screen,  up/down/page up/page down/home/end  move up and
       down through lists.  Vi-style h/j/k/l movement keys are also supported.
       A  tip: movement speed is limited by your keyboard repeat rate, to move
       faster you may want to adjust it.  (If you're on a mac,  the  Karabiner
       app is one way to do that.)

       With  shift pressed, the cursor keys adjust the report period, limiting
       the  transactions  to  be  shown   (by   default,   all   are   shown).
       shift-down/up  steps  downward and upward through these standard report
       period   durations:   year,   quarter,   month,   week,   day.    Then,
       shift-left/right  moves to the previous/next period.  t sets the report
       period to today.  With the --watch option,  when  viewing  a  "current"
       period  (the  current  day,  week, month, quarter, or year), the period
       will move automatically to track the current date.  To set a  non-stan-
       dard period, you can use / and a date: query.

       /  lets  you  set a general filter query limiting the data shown, using
       the same query terms as in hledger and hledger-web.  While editing  the
       query,  you  can  use CTRL-a/e/d/k, BS, cursor keys; press ENTER to set
       it, or ESCAPEto cancel.  There are also keys for quickly adjusting some
       common  filters  like  account depth and cleared/uncleared (see below).
       BACKSPACE or DELETE removes all filters, showing all transactions.

       ESCAPE removes all filters and jumps back to the top  screen.   Or,  it
       cancels a minibuffer edit or help dialog in progress.

       g  reloads from the data file(s) and updates the current screen and any
       previous screens.  (With large files, this  could  cause  a  noticeable
       pause.)

       I  toggles  balance  assertion  checking.  Disabling balance assertions
       temporarily can be useful for troubleshooting.

       a runs command-line hledger's add  command,  and  reloads  the  updated
       file.  This allows some basic data entry.

       E   runs   $HLEDGER_UI_EDITOR,   or   $EDITOR,   or  a  default  (emac-
       sclient -a "" -nw) on the journal file.  With some editors (emacs, vi),
       the  cursor  will be positioned at the current transaction when invoked
       from the register and transaction screens, and at  the  error  location
       (if possible) when invoked from the error screen.

       q quits the application.

       Additional screen-specific keys are described below.

SCREENS
   Accounts screen
       This  is  normally  the  first screen displayed.  It lists accounts and
       their balances, like hledger's balance command.  By default,  it  shows
       all  accounts  and their latest ending balances (including the balances
       of subaccounts).  if you specify a query on the command line, it  shows
       just the matched accounts and the balances from matched transactions.

       Account  names are normally indented to show the hierarchy (tree mode).
       To see less detail, set a depth limit by pressing a number key, 1 to 9.
       0 shows even less detail, collapsing all accounts to a single total.  -
       and + (or =) decrease and increase the  depth  limit.   To  remove  the
       depth  limit,  set  it  higher than the maximum account depth, or press
       ESCAPE.

       F toggles flat mode, in which accounts are shown as a flat  list,  with
       their  full names.  In this mode, account balances exclude subaccounts,
       except for accounts at the depth limit (as with hledger's balance  com-
       mand).

       H toggles between showing historical balances or period balances.  His-
       torical balances (the default) are ending balances at the  end  of  the
       report  period,  taking  into account all transactions before that date
       (filtered by the filter query if any),  including  transactions  before
       the  start  of  the report period.  In other words, historical balances
       are what you would see on a bank statement  for  that  account  (unless
       disturbed  by  a  filter  query).   Period balances ignore transactions
       before the report start date, so they show the change in balance during
       the report period.  They are more useful eg when viewing a time log.

       C  toggles  cleared  mode, in which uncleared transactions and postings
       are not shown.  U toggles  uncleared  mode,  in  which  only  uncleared
       transactions/postings are shown.

       R toggles real mode, in which virtual postings are ignored.

       Z  toggles  nonzero  mode, in which only accounts with nonzero balances
       are shown (hledger-ui shows zero items by default, unlike  command-line
       hledger).

       Press right or enter to view an account's transactions register.

   Register screen
       This screen shows the transactions affecting a particular account, like
       a check register.  Each line represents one transaction and shows:

       o the other account(s) involved, in abbreviated form.   (If  there  are
         both  real  and virtual postings, it shows only the accounts affected
         by real postings.)

       o the overall change to the current account's balance; positive for  an
         inflow to this account, negative for an outflow.

       o the running historical total or period total for the current account,
         after the transaction.  This can be toggled with H.  Similar  to  the
         accounts  screen,  the  historical  total is affected by transactions
         (filtered by the filter query) before the report  start  date,  while
         the period total is not.  If the historical total is not disturbed by
         a filter query, it will be the running historical balance  you  would
         see on a bank register for the current account.

       If  the  accounts  screen  was  in  tree mode, the register screen will
       include transactions from both the current account and its subaccounts.
       If  the  accounts  screen  was  in  flat  mode, and a non-depth-clipped
       account was selected, the register  screen  will  exclude  transactions
       from subaccounts.  In other words, the register always shows the trans-
       actions responsible for  the  period  balance  shown  on  the  accounts
       screen.  As on the accounts screen, this can be toggled with F.

       C  toggles  cleared  mode, in which uncleared transactions and postings
       are not shown.  U toggles  uncleared  mode,  in  which  only  uncleared
       transactions/postings are shown.

       R toggles real mode, in which virtual postings are ignored.

       Z  toggles  nonzero  mode, in which only transactions posting a nonzero
       change are shown (hledger-ui shows zero items by default,  unlike  com-
       mand-line hledger).

       Press right (or enter) to view the selected transaction in detail.

   Transaction screen
       This  screen  shows  a  single transaction, as a general journal entry,
       similar to hledger's print command and  journal  format  (hledger_jour-
       nal(5)).

       The  transaction's  date(s)  and  any  cleared  flag, transaction code,
       description, comments, along with  all  of  its  account  postings  are
       shown.   Simple  transactions  have two postings, but there can be more
       (or in certain cases, fewer).

       up and down will step through all transactions listed in  the  previous
       account  register screen.  In the title bar, the numbers in parentheses
       show your position  within  that  account  register.   They  will  vary
       depending on which account register you came from (remember most trans-
       actions appear in multiple account registers).  The #N number preceding
       them is the transaction's position within the complete unfiltered jour-
       nal, which is a more stable id (at least until the next reload).

   Error screen
       This screen will appear if there is a problem, such as a  parse  error,
       when  you  press g to reload.  Once you have fixed the problem, press g
       again to reload and resume normal operation.  (Or, you can press escape
       to cancel the reload attempt.)

ENVIRONMENT
       COLUMNS The screen width to use.  Default: the full terminal width.

       LEDGER_FILE The journal file path when not specified with -f.  Default:
       ~/.hledger.journal (on  windows,  perhaps  C:/Users/USER/.hledger.jour-
       nal).

FILES
       Reads  data from one or more files in hledger journal, timeclock, time-
       dot,  or  CSV  format  specified   with   -f,   or   $LEDGER_FILE,   or
       $HOME/.hledger.journal           (on          windows,          perhaps
       C:/Users/USER/.hledger.journal).

BUGS
       The need to precede options with -- when invoked from hledger  is  awk-
       ward.

       -f- doesn't work (hledger-ui can't read from stdin).

       -V affects only the accounts screen.

       When you press g, the current and all previous screens are regenerated,
       which may cause a noticeable pause with large files.  Also there is  no
       visual indication that this is in progress.

       --watch  is  not yet fully robust.  It works well for normal usage, but
       many file changes in a short time (eg  saving  the  file  thousands  of
       times  with an editor macro) can cause problems at least on OSX.  Symp-
       toms include: unresponsive UI, periodic resetting of the  cursor  posi-
       tion, momentary display of parse errors, high CPU usage eventually sub-
       siding, and possibly a small but persistent build-up of CPU usage until
       the program is restarted.



REPORTING BUGS
       Report  bugs at http://bugs.hledger.org (or on the #hledger IRC channel
       or hledger mail list)


AUTHORS
       Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> and contributors


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Simon Michael.
       Released under GNU GPL v3 or later.


SEE ALSO
       hledger(1),     hledger-ui(1),     hledger-web(1),      hledger-api(1),
       hledger_csv(5), hledger_journal(5), hledger_timeclock(5), hledger_time-
       dot(5), ledger(1)

       http://hledger.org



hledger-ui dev                   January 2017                    hledger-ui(1)
