The navigation issues are fixed.  Fixing the highlighting of partial
entries will take more thought.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will look into these.  M-p and M-n are really next and previous xact,
> not directive.  But it should be consistent.
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> [ sorry if you get this twice; I think I got my `reply' commands in a
>>   twist. ]
>>
>> Craig Earls <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > OK, I have gotten all of these.  I will look into handling block
>> > comments as blocks.  Right now it only honors them as line when
>> > overlaying the highlight.
>>
>> Thank you!  It's getting much better.  The issues below are more minor,
>> at least for my use, but still suboptimal...
>>
>> * with the attached file, navigate to the line with ";;;;; 2006" in it,
>>   move to the next line (C-n), hit RET to create a blank line, and start
>>   typing a transaction, for example "2006/01/01 Foo".  Until the `F' of
>>   `Foo' is typed, the text is in comment-face.  Similarly, when adding
>>   posts, for example "  Assets:Bar  $1" RET "  Assets:Baz  $-1" RET, the
>>   first account name is in comment-face until the double-space, and the
>>   second is in the same face as the amount.
>>
>> * having typed in a complete transaction (preceding the two price
>>   directive lines), everything should be in an appropriate face; thank
>>   you!  If I now try navigating between transactions and directives,
>>   using M-p / M-n, there are a couple of odd bits of behaviour:
>>
>>   - if I use M-n to go to the end of the buffer, I end up on the last
>>     line with no transaction highlighted.  At that point, if I hit M-p,
>>     I don't go back to the last transaction in the file, but the
>>     penultimate one.  I think that's odd.  It's a general problem; when
>>     point is between transactions, it seems to be counted as being
>>     within the last transaction.
>>
>>   - relatedly, if I add a couple of blank lines between the "Opening
>>     balance" and "Interest" transactions, and then navigate to the line
>>     "2006/03/10 Opening balance", I see the transaction overlay covering
>>     all but one of the blank lines as well as the posting lines.  If I
>>     then go past the postings to the first blank line, the transaction
>>     overlay shows just that line.
>>
>>   - with the new complete transaction before the price directive lines,
>>     I can navigate forward through transactions and directives with M-n.
>>     M-p, which I would expect to be the inverse of M-n, skips directive
>>     lines -- so I can navigate forward through price directives, but if
>>     I go one too far and try to do the inverse operation with M-p, I end
>>     up at the previous transaction.  (This is actually substantially
>>     worse if I put price directives between the opening balance and the
>>     interest lines; if I do that, have point on the price directive
>>     line, and hit M-p, the cursor is moved to the new Foo transaction.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>> --
>>
>> ---
>> 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
>



-- 
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.

Reply via email to