some issues

[porjo]

I've noticed a couple of issues while using Ledger:

1. Specifying an invalid --period results in hung process. e.g. ./ledger balance --period blah -f ledger.dat
2. When filtering transactions using --payee the results are those where the transaction description contains the keyword, not the payee (the account into which money was paid). Should --payee be renamed to --description?

Thanks for your time.

[howeyc]

Thanks for the heads up on --period

As far as payee, that is the same as description. Where the amounts go is accounts. You can filter by accounts by specifying additional filters at the end of the command. The filters are just substring/contains matches, and are or'd together.

For example to see the balances of accounts with the word "food" or "online" or "utilities" you can do

./ledger -f ledger.dat bal food online utilities

Similar to examples here: http://howeyc.github.io/ledger/02_Register.html

[porjo]

Thanks for the advice on filtering by accounts.