ledger-add-xact fails in an empty buffer ignoring main ledger file

[mikeonly]

Hi, I am having issues running C-c C-a bound to ledger-add-transaction in a new file that has no transaction. The issue is that ledger xact executed from ledger-add-transaction returns no matches.

Relevant setup is the following:

• main.journal with includes files and contains historical transactions
• new.journal which I create and would like to fill with new transaction using C-c C-a functionality

I use ledger-mode in Doom Emacs through straight. I have set these variables for ledger-mode:

(setq ledger-init-file-name (expand-file-name "~/Documents/Finances/Private/main.journal")
        ledger-accounts-file (expand-file-name "~/Documents/Finances/Private/meta.journal")
        ledger-binary-path "/opt/homebrew/bin/ledger"
        ledger-default-date-format ledger-iso-date-format
        ledger-highlight-xact-under-point nil)

When I run C-c C-a with any date and uber, ledger-mode raises error:

Error: No accounts, and no past transaction matching 'uber'

However, in cli, ledger xact 2023-11-11 uber would give a match

2024-03-20 Uber
    Expenses:Transport:Cabs                EUR 53.36
    Assets:Visa

I suspect the error occurs here in ledger-exec-ledger code. In fact, (ledger-master-file) resolves to the current buffer, new.journal, which is empty, and so as far as I see ledger xact is called via call-process-region with just contents of the new.journal file, i.e. with no historical transactions.

Am I missing anything to make C-c C-a work in the config, that is, to receive ledger-init-file-name or have ledger-master-file properly resolved? I tried setting it as a variable, but that leads to C-c C-a just failing with an error Ledger execution failed. Thanks :)