If the close directive is absent, it just means that the account isn't closed. Presumably if you don't include the 2016 file your intent is not to consider history from those times.
Frankly... just put everything in one file. Let the reporting do the work. That's how it's designed to be used. Somebody wanted multiple files at some point and I gave it to them quickly with a caveat and a warning, but the options and plugins processing haven't really been designed with that in mind. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <[email protected]> wrote: > As of now that's not (yet) a huge concern for me starting from ground > zero, but I can see how that would be (maybe?) an issue going forward. > Another option would be to declare the plugins at the top of each file > (there won't be a ton of files this way) in that situation? > > My other concern with multi-file is account declaration/closing. If an > account is declared in 2014 and closed in 2016 then both files would > have to be included for beancount to make sense of it. Conversely if > 2015 is not included then balances would be off (unless user practices > padding at the end of every month). > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:45:27PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > >> Just put all the plugins and options in the top-level file. > > > > My point is precisely that that doesn't work. More precisely: it will > > have the effect of making the plugins effective when you process the > > top-level file, but ineffective when you process per-year files. > > > > Depending on how invasive the plugins in use are, this asymmetry might > > result in very surprising side-effects. > > > > Cheers. > > -- > > Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o > > Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o > > Former Debian Project Leader . OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . > > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Beancount" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beancount/20161225182511.edre3t3rrtavnwpi%40upsilon.cc. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beancount/CAGQ70etvsxyC_s28V14T7w-ePYMg1gd%2BRvWuE% > 2B7gxqxqs9fPMw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMtkTS-duv%2BVi3c_OkNjbVAEar_hK3JjBhWK%2Boxu8c_7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
