On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dee, > Please don't take offense. I am happy to help. But you caught me on a > particularly bad day. I have put a huge amount of time into the > documentation and the emacs code to support editing ledger files and I > always looking for ways to improve it. That said, for any tool there is a > minimum required level of knowledge to use the tool. I would not expect > some one who cannot balance a checkbook to understand how to use ledger. > And I would not feel responsible to teach that so that they could use > ledger. I don't think it is appropriate to explain how to create a plain > text file in the documentation any more than I am going to explain how to > turn on the computer. > I was going to separate this into different sections but have decided not to. That it is not necessary to indicate that one starts with a basic EMPTY text file is a huge hole in the documentation. There is lots of detail for after that but NOTHING on that point. Yes it seems redundant now that I KNOW what is required it is quite different from every other program that I have run into or used. The first request in most documentation is to start the program by using whatever has been designed to invoke said program. Instead LedgerCLI asks you to edit a file as your first task. Note there is nothing on a good place to place said file, what the file is or any other information. Then you equate 'knowing' that a plain text file is needed with 'how to turn on the computer' - - - - I don't think I need to tell you what kind of a response that should get. > > I am interested in your perspectives on using ledger and will be happy to > walk you through some basics. The learning curve will be steep. I can only > really help in the evenings after I have taken care of worm and family. > > We will see how things go. Thanking you for your consideration. Dee -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
