Thanks everyone for your opinion on this. I see the point of sensible financial data being exchanged rather infrequently.
Having a standard file extension would help programs¹ to register for these file extensions. For example: VLC² has registered for .dat files on my system, vim enables 'ledger mode' when it finds .dat, .ldg, or .ledger, and timelog files aren't even supported. I was hoping to make using ledger with different utilities a bit easier by having standard file extensions for the two ledger filetypes. Personally I find .ledger and .timelog a bit long, .ldg is fine with me I'd then add a .tml suffix to the timelog files. Those two 3-letter suffixes may interfere with current file formats, that's why I proposed .ldgr and .tmlg. I particularly dislike .dat since it is already used by other fileformats and may lead to confusion. >From my point of view it would help to have common file suffixes and use them throughout the ledger documentation and examples as a best practice. It would have certainly helped me when I started learning ledger to avoid some confusion :) Alexis ¹ currently those are rather sparse, but who knows… ² http://www.videolan.org -- --- 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.
