That is because I don't think I understood it either. I will put this on my list of things to add.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Simon Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 7/30/14 8:03 PM, Martin Blais wrote: >>> >>> As I understand it, you are always matching postings, but the payee >>> is propagated to each posting. I think of it as "postings with given >>> account and payee," but you may be more comfortable if you say >>> "postings with a given account and in a transaction with given >>> payee." (Although this might also be less correct because you can >>> override the payee per posting in a transaction.) >>> >>> That seems like an odd choice. If it was constrained to only select >>> subsets of transactions, then you'd have a claim to balance the reports. >>> Any subset of transactions will balance (because each of them >>> individually does). So for instance, my view of what "account = X" >>> should mean is "match all transactions that have at least one posting >>> with account X". You should never be able to isolate postings from their >>> transactions, it breaks the DE system. >>> >>> Then if you want to restrict what you end up printing out, that's fine, >>> but that's an entirely different operation, one that only filters what >>> gets rendered, and that would depend only on the report type, it would >>> never affect any calculations. >> >> >> As I see it, the print command prints whole transactions and filters by >> transaction, but register prints individual postings and filters by posting, >> so there's no expectation of it showing you balanced data. >> >> I haven't needed or wanted more than one kind of filtering (eg --limit and >> --display in ledger). Sometimes (not often) I'll do a multi-step filter by >> using print to select the transactions I want and pipe the result into >> register. > > > It would be really nice if the Ledger manual was updated to reflect its > filtering semantics more clearly. > I don't think I've come across this detail. > > > > -- > > --- > 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. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- 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.
