ledger
ledger-sort-buffer does not respect balance transactions
The sorting operation performed by the functions:
- ledger-sort-buffer
- ledger-mode-clean-buffer
- ledger-sort-region
break the balance assignment statements (sec. 5.10 in the ledger3 manual).
The sorting action is not safe and can affect the integrity of the ledger file without any warning(s) to the user. Afterwards, it may be very difficult to correct.
To avoid the above, you may want to consider:
- ledger-sort-buffer, be removed from the ledger-mode, until a work around or enhancement is available.
- ledger-mode-clean-buffer, only perform the whitespace cleaning part, not the sorting.
- ledger-sort-region can be OK, if the user is careful enough. Perhaps it would be good practice that ledger-sort-region issues a warning to the user before proceeding with the sort operation.
Yes. The sort function can only handle dated transactions. I am open to code submissions that can fix this but have no plans to address this. I attempted to some time ago and the effort was going to be to high.
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:15 deusmax [email protected] wrote:
The sorting operation performed by the functions:
- ledger-sort-buffer
- ledger-mode-clean-buffer
- ledger-sort-region
break the balance assignment statements (sec. 5.10 in the ledger3 manual).
The sorting action is not safe and can affect the integrity of the ledger file without any warning(s) to the user. Afterwards, it may be very difficult to correct.
To avoid the above, you may want to consider:
- ledger-sort-buffer, be removed from the ledger-mode, until a work around or enhancement is available.
- ledger-mode-clean-buffer, only perform the whitespace cleaning part, not the sorting.
- ledger-sort-region can be OK, if the user is careful enough. Perhaps it would be good practice that ledger-sort-region issues a warning to the user before proceeding with the sort operation.
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