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ledger-add-transaction candidate narrowing

Open lcvass opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

Hello!

I usually add a new transaction by interactively calling ledger-add-transaction, which prompts for a date and then prompts for a xact string. The string prompt has become a pain point as I have a ton of past payees in my file and it's really hard to guess what payee ledger will guess from a given string.

Is there any way to preview/narrow the existing payees in the minibuffer when using xact?

lcvass avatar Oct 09 '25 18:10 lcvass

@lcvass This has bothered me quite a bit in the past, too. I decided to implement a live output preview rather than just narrowing or showing a list of payees, since the ledger xact command can also be used to input accounts and amounts. Would you mind giving #461 a look and providing some feedback on the experience?

bcc32 avatar Dec 08 '25 01:12 bcc32