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johannesgerer / buchhaltung

Smart tools for the ledger universe
http://johannesgerer.com/buchhaltung
MIT License
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Seed autocompletion from "account <x>" lines or a bogus transaction #43

Open Nebukadneza opened 5 years ago

Nebukadneza commented 5 years ago

I created a accountnames.ledger containing a list of statements like:

account Expenses:Cats
account Expenses:Dogs
account Income:Sausages

and so on. then i include accountnames.ledger in my main ledger file. The hope was that buchhaltung would use these to seed TAB-autocompletion in match or add. However, it seems it does not.

Then, I tried to workaround this by generating a bogus transaction with each of these accounts involved at 0 EUR for each account, and put this on top of the import-ledger. Again, buchhaltung did not pick it up as autocompletion targets ….

I believe it’d be way more convenient for users who prefer a fixed list of pre-defined accounts to seed auto-completion like this. It also makes accidentally entering invalid or typo-ed accounts less likely.

Nevertheless, thanks for your great tool ^_^