The default timeclock parser (ie when not using --old-timeclock) has
the following changes, related to issues such as
[#2141], [#2365], [#2400], [#2417]:
- semicolon now always starts a comment; timeclock account names can't include semicolons
(though journal account names still can)
- clock-in and clock-out entries now have different syntax
- clock-ins now require an account name
- clock-outs now can have a comment and tags
- the doc has been rewritten, and now mentions the --old-timeclock flag
- lib: accountnamep and modifiedaccountnamep now take a flag to allow semicolons or not
We now support having multiple sessions clocked in. These are paired by
account name if given on the out entry, and otherwise an out closes the
most recent in entry.
Note that this breaks some backwards compatibility, in that we
previously ignored the description on the clock out entry. To mitigate
this, a new hidden flag --timeclock-old has been added, which reverts to
the old behavior.
Previously, hledger could read CSV files containing non-ascii
characters only if they are UTF8-encoded. Now there is a new CSV
rule, encoding ENCODING, which allows reading CSV files with other
encodings.
This adds a dependency on the encoding library, which supports fewer
encodings than text-icu but does not require a third-party C library.
To avoid build issues on various platforms, we require version 0.10+.
This adds some use of the ImplicitParams language extension, required
by encoding's API, but only in a small code region.
This also changes the type of Reader's rReadFn; it now takes
a `Handle` rather than a `Text`, allowing more flexibility.
When print is generating beancount output, turn off the usual
inheritance of account tags by postings; it would generate excessive
metadata in the journal. Beancount can do or not do that kind of
inheritance itself.
- These special hidden tags, used internally, have been renamed:
- `_modified` -> `_modified-transaction`
- `_cost-matched` -> `_cost-posting`
- `_conversion-matched` -> `_conversion-posting`
- All special hidden tags now have a similarly-named visible tag,
and `--verbose-tags` now shows those more often, which is useful
when troubleshooting `--infer-equity`, `--infer-costs`,
or the matching of redundant costs and conversion postings.
- The `generated-posting:` tag added by `--infer-equity` is now valueless.
- The `modified-transaction:` tag added by `--auto` now appears on its own line.
--color now also works in a config file, like --pager, except for two
cases: it does not affect colouring of debug output, or the colouring
helpers used in the check recentassertions error message.
For brevity, and consistency with --conf.
--rules-file remains supported, as a hidden option.
hledger's main mode now supports the hidden legacy flags,
as the command modes do.
This enables a "relaxed" workflow where you delay balance assertions
checking until strict mode is turned on: always run hledger -I, and
add -s when you're ready.
When the error message repeated the invalid date at the end,
it was possible to misinterpret that as a suggested fix (reported in chat).
Instead, date errors (most of them) now rely on the highlighted data
excerpt above. This is also preferable since it shows the original
date as written, not a reconstruction with a possibly different format.
Should this be the policy for all error messages going forward ?
It would be easier.
Can we assume the data excerpt is always visible along with the error message ?
It isn't shown by flycheck-hledger in emacs, eg.
Based on feedback in chat, I added support for several more kinds of
Unicode space character for separating digit groups, both when reading
and when displaying numbers. These are the spaces currently supported,
which are just my best guess at the ones that might show up in CSV files
now and then:
space,
no-break space,
en space,
em space,
punctuation space,
thin space,
narrow no-break space,
medium mathematical space
When processing costs and equity postings in transactions during
journal finalisation, we now pass just the conversion account name(s)
rather than the entire map of account types. This slowdown was severe
for some users/data/machines.
Strict checks now run only once, at end of the high level read operation,
and not for each individual file; this fixes some spurious --strict failures,
like account declarations not affecting a sibling file as they should.
And .latest file writing now happens as the last step, after passing
strict checks. This is mainly for the import command, but it also
means that hledger print --new now does not update .latest files
if strict checks are failing.
The file reading API has been improved and documented in more detail.
This and the preceding commits were "work in progress" that got out of control.
There's more to do, but this one brings these precision-related improvements
(at least):
When "infinite decimals" arise, they are now generally shown with
8 decimal digits rather than 255.
print and prices no longer add trailing decimal zeros unnecessarily.
Some code has been refactored or given more debug output.
All tests have been updated to match the recent changes.
