Simon Michael

We need to pick a design and either implement it or note the limitation in the manual.

Wouldn't that leave us in the same situation, just with a different character ? Sometimes you want to write ; in your tags.

> yes, and colon, and that one isn't allowed at all in a tag value, or is it? That's a good question; I think it is. We could probably use...

We could just stop supporting multiple tags in one line. If you have multiple tags, use multiple comment lines. I rarely have multiple tags, myself. I know some people probably...

Or we could do the quoting thing, which is consistent with commodity symbols. ("If the commodity contains numbers, spaces or non-word punctuation it must be enclosed in double quotes.") ```...

Ledger only allows one tag per line. (With a value. It allows multiple valueless tags per line via :tag1:tag2: syntax). If we restrict tags to one per line, we also...

Would you like to work on it ? Note some existing commands do something similar: add (looks up the most similar past transaction based on description), and register-match (does the...

@flaviobn, feel free to ask for help on #hledger and I/we can help you move forward.

FYI: ``` elisp ; Simon's ledger-mode tweaks (custom-set-variables ; neutralise some ledgerisms '(ledger-binary-path (expand-file-name "~/.local/bin/hledger")) '(ledger-mode-should-check-version nil) '(ledger-init-file-name " ") ; move default amount position right allowing longer account names...

``` elisp ; recognise more file suffixes (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(h?ledger\\|journal\\|j\\)$" . ledger-mode)) ; enable orgstruct minor mode, TAB while on a * comment expands/collapses org node ; (can get slow...