From e803a19145be6bd4799220c1d57b1714fd2903da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:50:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: note ledger D difference

---
 MANUAL.markdown | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MANUAL.markdown b/MANUAL.markdown
index 2841235be..e87564d54 100644
--- a/MANUAL.markdown
+++ b/MANUAL.markdown
@@ -1108,6 +1108,10 @@ entries, and the following c++ ledger options and commands:
     prices for amounts which have them. (This currently means that
     it does not print multi-commodity transactions in valid journal format.)
 
+  - hledger's default commodity directive (D) applies the commodity to
+    subsequent commodityless amounts. ledger uses it only to set commodity
+    display settings (and for the entry command).
+
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 ### Installation issues