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@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ See also:
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** wip
*** BACKLOG: move items here from SM's private backlog
*** move items here from SM's private backlog
** cli
*** cli: help: clarify/improve the various kinds of command line help
*** help: clarify/improve the various kinds of command line help
**** survey/describe
Most of these are long, and best viewed with a pager, eg: hledger -h | less
@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ https://hledger.org/hledger-web.html
#+end_example
*** cli: help improvements
*** help improvements
**** auto pager
**** colour
**** show commands to get more detailed help
@ -90,29 +90,29 @@ Financial reports:
balance (bal) show custom balance reports, budgets, gains..
roi show a return on investment report
**** --pivot: list possible arguments in help
*** cli: --version: include latest commit date
*** cli: --version: include git branch name if not master ?
*** cli: disable colors when writing to .txt file ?
*** cli: trailing colon makes alias ineffective
*** --version: include latest commit date
*** --version: include git branch name if not master ?
*** disable colors when writing to .txt file ?
*** trailing colon makes alias ineffective
`--alias expenses:personal:=expenses:`
*** cli: unclear error if a trailing slash is written after file name
*** unclear error if a trailing slash is written after file name
shell completion might wrongly add a trailing slash, eg as with this symlink,
resulting in this unclear error:
~/notes$ stats -f current.journal/
hledger: SourcePos {sourceName = "/Users/simon/.sm/notes/current.journal/", sourceLine = Pos 9, sourceColumn = Pos 1} reading /Users/simon/.sm/notes/current.journal/2018.prices:
/Users/simon/current.journal/2018.prices: openFile: inappropriate type (Not a directory)
*** cli: -h/--help should work even with unrecognised flags/missing args
*** -h/--help should work even with unrecognised flags/missing args
**** hledger --help ui --watch
**** hledger ui --watch --help
**** hledger --nosuchflag --help
**** hledger nosuchcommand --help
***** not expected to work; hledger --help nosuchcommand does work
***** unify hledger --help & hledger COMMAND --help more ?
*** cli: @ does not expand file names, eg @~/somefile
*** cli: bad --width parse error
*** @ does not expand file names, eg @~/somefile
*** bad --width parse error
$ hledger -f examples/sample.journal reg -w 80,-1
hledger: could not parse width option: ParseErrorBundle {bundleErrors = TrivialError 3 (Just (Tokens ('-' :| ""))) (fromList [Label ('d' :| "igit")]) :| [], bundlePosState = PosState {pstateInput = "80,-1", pstateOffset = 0, pstateSourcePos = SourcePos {sourceName = "(unknown)", sourceLine = Pos 1, sourceColumn = Pos 1}, pstateTabWidth = Pos 8, pstateLinePrefix = ""}} (use -h to see usage)
*** cli: balance assertion error shows ugly transaction
*** balance assertion error shows ugly transaction
hledger: balance assertion error in "/Users/simon/notes/2018.journal" (line 4949, column 54):
in transaction:
Transaction {tindex = 976, tsourcepos = JournalSourcePos "/Users/simon/notes/2018.journal" (4948,4950), tdate = 2018-09-01, tdate2 = Nothing, tstatus = *, tcode = "5VN72122C99690620", tdescription = "add funds to paypal", tcomment = "for:, time:06:53:51, type:Bank Deposit to PP Account , status:Pending, balance:6.99, gross:6.99, fee:0.00\n", ttags = [("for",""),("time","06:53:51"),("type","Bank Deposit to PP Account"),("status","Pending"),("balance","6.99"),("gross","6.99"),("fee","0.00")], tpostings = [PostingPP {pdate="Nothing", pdate2="Nothing", pstatus="", paccount="assets:personal:online:paypal", pamount=Mixed [Amount {acommodity = "$", aquantity = 6.99, aprice = NoPrice, astyle = AmountStylePP "L False 2 Just '.' Nothing..", amultiplier = False}], pcomment="", ptype=RegularPosting, ptags=[], pbalanceassertion=Just (Amount {acommodity = "$", aquantity = 6.99, aprice = NoPrice, astyle = AmountStylePP "L False 2 Just '.' Nothing..", amultiplier = False},GenericSourcePos "/Users/simon/notes/2018.journal" 4949 54), ptransaction=Just "<txn>", porigin=Nothing},PostingPP {pdate="Nothing", pdate2="Nothing", pstatus="", paccount="assets:personal:bank:wf:checking", pamount=Mixed [Amount {acommodity = "$", aquantity = -6.99, aprice = NoPrice, astyle = AmountStylePP "L False 2 Just '.' Nothing..", amultiplier = False}], pcomment="", ptype=RegularPosting, ptags=[], pbalanceassertion=Nothing, ptransaction=Just "<txn>", porigin=Nothing}], tpreceding_comment_lines = ""}
@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ account: assets:personal:online:paypal
commodity: $
calculated: $-93.01
asserted: $6.99 (difference: +$100.00)
*** cli: color support like stack's (still a few things remaining)
*** color support like stack's (still a few things remaining)
**** http://no-color.org/ color should not be added by default if the `NO_COLOR` environment variable is present.
**** Existing global option `--color=WHEN` is now also available as a
non-project-specific yaml configuration parameter `color:`.
@ -145,17 +145,17 @@ asserted: $6.99 (difference: +$100.00)
`--color`, `--stack-colors`, `stack ls stack-colors` at the command line
and
for `color:` and `stack-colors:` in yaml configuration files.
*** cli: generate commands list more dynamically from command docs
*** generate commands list more dynamically from command docs
**** names, aliases, descriptions
*** cli: inconsistent repeated options behaviour: -b 1/1 -b 2/1 should use the last date & be documented
*** cli: pass -- -h/--help through to tasty
*** cli: underquoted $ gives "empty list" error
*** inconsistent repeated options behaviour: -b 1/1 -b 2/1 should use the last date & be documented
*** pass -- -h/--help through to tasty
*** underquoted $ gives "empty list" error
$ bal --budget ^sm:exp date:jan -M cur:\$ --tree
Budget performance in 2019/01:
hledger: Prelude.maximum: empty list
*** cli: 1275 drop/depth error message followup
*** 1275 drop/depth error message followup
Two commands:
$ hledger bal --drop '-999999999999999'
@ -174,19 +174,19 @@ hledger: drop's argument '-999999999999999' must be a positive integer less than
hledger: drop's argument '-999999999999999' must between 0 and 2^63
hledger: drop's argument '-999999999999999' should be 0 <= N < 2^63
**
*** cli: do recompile stack script addon if source is newer
*** do recompile stack script addon if source is newer
ie, change:
$ hledger check-tag-files # compiles if there's no compiled version
*** cli: drop abbreviation uniqueness requirement ?
*** cli: get actions from https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46
*** cli: group common options as in CliOptions.reportflags
*** cli: hledger: "date:monday-" gave a date parse error ()
*** cli: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/07/automatic-uis-for-command-lines-with.html
*** cli: improve error message:
*** drop abbreviation uniqueness requirement ?
*** get actions from https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46
*** group common options as in CliOptions.reportflags
*** hledger: "date:monday-" gave a date parse error ()
*** http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/07/automatic-uis-for-command-lines-with.html
*** improve error message:
hledger: balance assignments cannot be used with accounts which are
posted to by transaction modifier rules (auto postings).
Please write the posting amount explicitly, or remove the rule.
*** cli: red color is bad on powershell navy background
*** red color is bad on powershell navy background
```
Guest72
Hi, does anybody know how to change the negative value color in powershell. It's drakred and almost not readable on the dark blue background
@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ not sure, but meanwhile using --color=never could help
Guest72
better than dark red ;)
```
*** cli: show an extra newline after txt reports, for better display when showing one after another
*** cli: show name of reader responsible for a parse error
*** cli: ugly --alias parse error
*** show an extra newline after txt reports, for better display when showing one after another
*** show name of reader responsible for a parse error
*** ugly --alias parse error
$ bal --alias a
hledger: parse error at ParseErrorBundle {bundleErrors = TrivialError 1 (Just EndOfInput) (fromList [Tokens ('=' :| "")]) :| [], bundlePosState = PosState {pstateInput = "a", pstateOffset = 0, pstateSourcePos = SourcePos {sourceName = "--alias a", sourceLine = Pos 1, sourceColumn = Pos 1}, pstateTabWidth = Pos 8, pstateLinePrefix = ""}}
*** cli: ugly parse error from malformed --width argument
*** ugly parse error from malformed --width argument
ghci> :main areg sm.*foo -w 350,50,50
Transactions in sm:assets:foo and subaccounts:
2020-01-01 *** Exception: could not parse width option: ParseErrorBundle {bundleErrors = TrivialError 6 (Just (Tokens (',' :| ""))) (fromList [Label ('d' :| "igit"),EndOfInput]) :| [], bundlePosState = PosState {pstateInput = "350,50,50", pstateOffset = 0, pstateSourcePos = SourcePos {sourceName = "(unknown)", sourceLine = Pos 1, sourceColumn = Pos 1}, pstateTabWidth = Pos 8, pstateLinePrefix = ""}} (use -h to see usage)