This gives renderTable a little more customisation. Before any of the
commits of this PR, render would just receive a string to display in
each cell. After the second commit of this PR it would also receive a
width of the string (in place of stripping ANSI sequences and then
calculating the width). After this commit, it now also takes an
alignment, so you can make cells left or right aligned. The function
render calls renderTable with appropriate options to give the same
behaviour as before. Also, previously render would always put a border
around the table. We would take this output, and would sometimes strip
the border by dropping the first and last rows, and first and last
characters of every row. I've just added an option to control whether
to put the border in, so we can just not add it in the first place,
rather than stripping it later. Note that this is again just defining
helper functions; this extra power is not yet used anywhere.
bal --budget was always showing the period as column heading,
as if for a change report. With --cumulative or --historical
it should show the end date, like other balance reports. Cf
https://hledger.org/hledger.html#multicolumn-balance-report.
This is an API change, but it seems better than having additional
colour-supporting variants and trying to avoid duplicated code.
I stopped short of changing showAmount, so cshowAmount still exists.
A bunch of account sorting changes that got intermingled.
First, account codes have been dropped. They can still be parsed and
will be ignored, for now. I don't know if anyone used them.
Instead, account display order is now controlled by the order of account
directives, if any. From the mail list:
I'd like to drop account codes, introduced in hledger 1.9 to control
the display order of accounts. In my experience,
- they are tedious to maintain
- they duplicate/compete with the natural tendency to arrange account
directives to match your mental chart of accounts
- they duplicate/compete with the tree structure created by account
names
and it gets worse if you think about using them more extensively,
eg to classify accounts by type.
Instead, I plan to just let the position (parse order) of account
directives determine the display order of those declared accounts.
Undeclared accounts will be displayed after declared accounts,
sorted alphabetically as usual.
Second, the various account sorting modes have been implemented more
widely and more correctly. All sorting modes (alphabetically, by account
declaration, by amount) should now work correctly in almost all commands
and modes (non-tabular and tabular balance reports, tree and flat modes,
the accounts command). Sorting bugs have been fixed, eg #875.
Only the budget report (balance --budget) does not yet support sorting.
Comprehensive functional tests for sorting in the accounts and balance
commands have been added. If you are confused by some sorting behaviour,
studying these tests is recommended, as sorting gets tricky.
