From f87a68999fc879d9f8eb027303a79a241bde49da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:27:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mention the often-overlooked 2-space rule in the too many
 missing amounts error

---
 hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Transaction.hs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Transaction.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Transaction.hs
index d31e57897..b506a621e 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Transaction.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Transaction.hs
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ isTransactionBalanced styles t =
 balanceTransaction :: Maybe (Map.Map Commodity AmountStyle) -> Transaction -> Either String Transaction
 balanceTransaction styles t@Transaction{tpostings=ps}
     | length rwithoutamounts > 1 || length bvwithoutamounts > 1
-        = Left $ printerr "could not balance this transaction (too many missing amounts)"
+        = Left $ printerr "could not balance this transaction (can't have more than one missing amount; remember to put 2 or more spaces before amounts)"
     | not $ isTransactionBalanced styles t''' = Left $ printerr $ nonzerobalanceerror t'''
     | otherwise = Right t''''
     where