NanoLedger
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chvp
Editing transactions
Edit transactions isn't trivial, because the parser throws away everything that isn't strictly what it needs. To be able to edit a transaction, we need to keep a transaction's "source". This might include extraneous data such as leading comments if we want to be able to write out the entire file, so we need to be careful that editing a transaction doesn't delete too much.
Edit (and delete, c.f. #48) are pretty fundamental. I understand why it is hard to implement, but I think there should be some provision for this. It might even call far a separate optional parser/app mode that enables this feature and errors or falls back to append-only mode if the parser hits anything it can't round trip. I could cope with only having a limited subset of ledger syntax as output by the app in order to get this feature.
I could probably cope myself, but this is blocker requirement in order to get my wife using some sort of data entry. I can figure out how to sync and edit other issues later, but if she can't fix anything as she's inputting it in we're going to have a mess and are worse off than our current note-taking-app solution.
Does deletion having just landed (party in the house! :balloon:) give hope that enough of the barriers to editing have been conquered and that his is soon to come?
There's still a few complexities I have to think about before I can do editing, but it should be do-able. I'm not making any promises on how soon this will happen though. (I am still just volunteering my time, after all.)
Just another vote for this very necessary feature, otherwise the app is perfectly usable.
