To end a transaction, period is required because there might be another
default posting being suggested, and enter usually means "accept the
default". But having to switch back and forth from enter to period
during data entry is a bit unergonomic, requiring too much thought.
Now, in the (common) case where you have entered a balanced transaction
and there are no more default postings to suggest, enter is also allowed
to end the transaction. Experimental; this might be too inconsistent.
The code is now much more manageable, faciliating further
improvements. Completion now works at all prompts, and
will insert the default value if the input area is empty.
Account and amount defaults are more robust and useful
in various situations. There might be a slight regression
with default commodity handling.
Previously executables with eg digits in their name were ignored.
It now finds all files beginning with hledger-, optionally ending with
.hs or .lhs, and with no other dots in the name.
As before, we don't check for executable permission (performance ?).
Two new multi-column balance report modes show ending balance per
period: `--cumulative`, starting from 0, and `--historical`, starting
from the historical starting balance.
The balance command's specification has been clarified and consolidated
in the Balance.hs haddock. Reports.hs has also had haddock updates. The
old AccountsReport type is now BalanceReport, still used by
single-column balance report. The new MultiBalanceReport type is used by
the multi-column reports.
Command line processing has been overhauled and made more consistent,
and now has tests and extensive debug output. More flags now work
both before and after COMMAND: -f, --rule-file, --alias, --help,
--debug, --version. Command line help, command aliases, API docs and
code have been improved.
In general, when cabal CPP macros like min_PKG are used, they should
be made optional. If they are not present, assume a developer is
building and choose the latest libs.
As part of adding -w in december I cleaned up/adjusted register field
widths, and didn't make all the tests pass. This commit makes one more
width adjustment
(one space after the date instead of two) and fixes all tests depending on register output.
Revisiting the "directory 1.2 can be installed with older GHC, so we'd better pin it in the cabal file" change.
Requiring directory 1.2 made hledger-web uninstallable with GHC < 7.6 because current yesod depends on ghc
which depends on a particular directory version and can't be upgraded. This is a smarter fix, which should let
all hledger packages build with whatever directory version is installed.
hledger now requires directory >= 1.2. This might make installation
more complex on old GHC versions; if it turns out to be needed,
perhaps it can be conditionalised again, more accurately, in the cabal file.
- A transaction code may be entered following the date in parentheses, eg: DATE (CODE)
- A transaction comment (possibly containing tags) may be entered following the description, eg: DESC ; COMMENT
- A posting comment may be entered following the amount, eg: AMOUNT ; COMMENT
