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Strange/Truncated output of payee on some locations
I get some inconsistent and strange output using the attached ledger file. When looking in register format it looks like this
.\bin\ledger.exe -f ledger.txt reg
2025/01/01 esme really lon Assets:Bank:Peter 660.00 660.00
2025/01/01 esme really lon Equity:Opening Balances -660.00 0.00
2025/11/26 Bus ticket Assets:Bank:Peter 259.00 259.00
2025/11/26 Bus ticket Income:Sales -259.00 0.00
It shows esme really lon instead of Some really long text
Export shows similar behaviour
.\bin\ledger.exe -f ledger.txt export
2025/01/01,esme really long text,Assets:Bank:Peter,660.00
2025/01/01,esme really long text,Equity:Opening Balances,-660.00
2025/11/26,Bus ticket,Assets:Bank:Peter,259.00
2025/11/26,Bus ticket,Income:Sales,-259.00
In web it shows as esme really long text
Version info.
.\bin\ledger.exe version
ledger 1.16.6
go go1.24.4
path github.com/howeyc/ledger/ledger
mod github.com/howeyc/ledger v1.16.6+dirty
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dep github.com/fatih/color v1.15.0 h1:kOqh6YHBtK8aywxGerMG2Eq3H6Qgoqeo13Bk2Mv/nBs=
dep github.com/hako/durafmt v0.0.0-20210608085754-5c1018a4e16b h1:wDUNC2eKiL35DbLvsDhiblTUXHxcOPwQSCzi7xpQUN4=
dep github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 h1:wN+x4NVGpMsO7ErUn/mUI3vEoE6Jt13X2s0bqwp9tc8=
dep github.com/ivanpirog/coloredcobra v1.0.1 h1:aURSdEmlR90/tSiWS0dMjdwOvCVUeYLfltLfbgNxrN4=
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build -buildmode=exe
build -compiler=gc
build -ldflags="-s -w -X github.com/howeyc/ledger/ledger/cmd.version=1.16.6"
build DefaultGODEBUG=asynctimerchan=1,gotestjsonbuildtext=1,gotypesalias=0,httpservecontentkeepheaders=1,multipathtcp=0,randseednop=0,rsa1024min=0,tls3des=1,tlsmlkem=0,winreadlinkvolume=0,winsymlink=0,x509keypairleaf=0,x509negativeserial=1,x509rsacrt=0,x509usepolicies=0
build CGO_ENABLED=0
build GOARCH=amd64
build GOOS=windows
build GOAMD64=v1
build vcs=git
build vcs.revision=d4ef9637833ed9061eadfaafb7ac7267665c0e7f
build vcs.time=2025-11-10T14:47:15Z
build vcs.modified=true
By default the register command outputs to a fixed width of 80. Payee and account name are truncated if they would cause the printed line to exceed that width. You can use '--wide' flag to use terminal width. Truncation could still occur though.
Having a "narrow" layout for CLI is OK even though I don't get why i the truncated text is prefixed with es.
And why does it truncate in the web UI?