Since I don't have every detail of Ledger's syntax memorized, and there are a few standard reports that I run regularly, I have several ledger command lines recorded as comments in my journal that I can copy and paste as needed.
I'd really like to be able to run those automatically. Here's an easy, straightforward implementation that feels very "ledger-y" to me: add a "report" directive to save named reports in the journal, and a "report" command to run those reports. The syntax for the directive might be: *report <name of report> <ledger command line arguments>*To run the report, you'd run at the command line: *ledger report <name of report>* So, for example, you could use the directive like this: *report salestax --period 'every 3 months from 2015-12-01' register* To run this report, instead of typing all the arguments, you'd just run the command: *ledger report salestax*The result would be the same as if you had run: *ledger --period 'every 3 months from 2015-12-01' register* This feels to me very much in keeping with ledger's philosophy and way of doing things. What do other people think of it? -- --- 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.
