On 3/1/15 3:42 AM, santaph...@gmail.com wrote: > Running > > ledger -M --empty reg ^Expenses:RareExpense > > produces a summary of Expenses:RareExpense, where each month is > represented, even if there was no activity for a given month. > The behaviour of --empty with regards to the beginning and end of the > considered period surprises me, however. > > First of all, the above does not include the no-activity months after the > last activity-month until now. I.e. if my last RareExpense was in July > 2014, it seems I get no empty months listed from August 2014 and onwards. > > This behaviour is also consistently applied when using the --begin > predicate. For instance, had I no RareExpense in 2014 except for in July > (and none until now either), the following: > > ledger -M --begin "2014/01" --empty reg ^Expenses:RareExpense > > seems to give me a singleton list with only July represented. > > That behaviour does not seem sensible to me. Am I doing something wrong or > is this a bug?
You haven't specified the exact behaviour you expect. I think you wouldn't want it to automatically show periods up to today, eg say you were working with an old ledger from 2000 (or 1500!). When start/end dates have been specified (with -b/-e/-p/date:), hledger will extend the report to those dates when -E/--empty is used. Eg: 2014/7/1 (Expenses:RareExpense) 1 $ hledger reg -ME -b 2014/1/1 RareExpense 2014/01 0 0 2014/02 0 0 2014/03 0 0 2014/04 0 0 2014/05 0 0 2014/06 0 0 2014/07 Ex:RareExpense 1 1 Another option would be to extend the report, either with or without -E, to the journal's start/end date (the earliest and latest date of all postings in the journal file(s)). -- --- 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.
