hledger-ui (formerly hledger-vty) is now built on brick, a new
declarative UI layer built on vty. This brings much new power, and
should make the UI much easier to grow and maintain.
At this point, functionality and performance are similar to the old
version. There's no journal entries screen, but entering the postings
screen jumps to the latest posting, and layout is better (multiple
commodities are rendered on one line).
Requires unreleased brick from github (HEAD or some branch) for now.
The balance command's --format option (in single-column mode) can now
adjust the rendering of multi-line strings, such as amounts with multiple
commodities. To control this, begin the format string with one of:
%_ - renders on multiple lines, bottom-aligned (the default)
%^ - renders on multiple lines, top-aligned
%, - render on one line, comma-separated
Also the final total (and the line above it) now adapt themselves to a
custom format.
The --format option's OutputFormat type was named confusingly like the
--output-format option. It has been renamed StringFormat to distinguish
it from StorageFormat (aka the data file format, referenced by
--output-format). Related code and types have been consolidated.
Also the (single-column) balance report's item rendering has had
some cleanup.
so we can benchmark things more easily with criterion.
As well as NFData, the Generic instance and a bunch more GHC extensions
seemed necessary. This is a little scary, impact unknown.
Just for fun and curiousity, hledger-vty once again builds, with hledger
HEAD and GHC 7.10, and has a stack config. To see it once again in all
its glory:
$ cd extra/hledger-vty
$ stack install
$ hledger vty [-- ARGS]
[ci skip]
Simpler and clearer. We now have "transaction prices" (recorded as part
of transaction amounts) and "market prices" (recorded with P
directives). Both are matters of historical record, also this avoids
confusion with the balance command's "historical balances".
