Sorry I haven't replied earlier. I expected to get notified by email on a response, but evidently I set up something wrong.
Anyway, I'm using ledger, not hledger. The behaviour you describe for hledger is *not* what ledger does. In particular, with your example, the output I get is: $ ledger -f ledger.dat reg -ME -b 2014/1/1 RareExpense 14-Jul-01 - 14-Jul-31 (Expens:RareExpense) 1 1 I can understand why ledger has this behaviour if no start or end-date is present. However, I don't find it sensible that the above does not contain the empty months until from January till July. I would expect exactly the behaviour that hledger seems to have. On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 6:57:06 PM UTC+1, Simon Michael (sm) wrote: > > On 3/1/15 3:42 AM, santa...@gmail.com <javascript:> 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.
