On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@upsilon.cc> wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:37:01PM -0400, Martin Blais wrote: > > Now the truly, wonderfully great thing is how much *power* we have > > using our little text files. It's exhilarating. I can write a little > > script that renames my accounts automatically - I use xx-rename - look > > at it in visual diff, run bean-web on it, look at the reports, decide > > if I like it or not, revert and retry if I screwed up until I get it > > right. > > Very much agreed. Although that comes at the price of either > sacrificing the correct surface syntax (e.g. right indentation, > alignment, etc.), or of writing quite complex text patching scripts. > I've just been living with the mess for the most part, but sometimes when I do that kind of rename I'll include the whitespace of the longer account so it remains aligned; it's a bad solution however, doesn't always work. In particular, I'm personally annoyed that when I batchly update ledger > files to rename accounts, transaction amounts easily become unaligned. > So, before (git) committing I go through them with ledger-mode and C-c > C-q them to fix alignment. I've written Python code to emit properly > aligned transactions when generating transaction templates from my bank > statements, but I haven't gone as far as doing that around plain old > sed. > > Do your scripts take care of that too? > Not yet but it has been annoying me too. > Do we need a ledger-sed or something of the sort? Or maybe something > simpler, such as a ledger-indent? I need one. I'll write one. This is an easy thing to do... I'll align on the first currency to the position of the longest account + a few chars. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
