Simon Michael

@jazcarate that's clever. What about just automatically creating an empty journal file in the default place when it's unspecified and nonexistent ? At least for hledger-web, possibly for hledger/hledger-ui as...

All tools should work fine with an empty journal, I'm just not sure if auto-creating the file will be problem free. Let's see.

When a file is specified with -f but does not exist, we should not auto-create in that case.

I didn't like the old behaviour of showing the unpivoted account when the tag is absent. It felt confusing to "half-pivot". Showing nothing in that case made sense to me...

PS sorry for breaking your workflow. Tell us more about it if you like.

How about "-". Suggests "missing", language neutral, syntactically valid, unlikely to clash with a real account. ``` 2018/01/29 test - -5.00 EUR value 5.00 EUR ; tag: value ```

@lubieowoce, great! Please go ahead. I wouldn't bother adding an option until we find it's really needed.

This bug is still open as originally reported. @lubieowoce, might you still be interested in working on it ?

Related to #319.

I see @purcell's ["hledger is less supported, not unsupported"](https://github.com/ledger/ledger-mode/issues/254#issuecomment-642967109) comment in 2020, so it sounds like compatibility patches would be welcome. I might add a `hledger` label for related issues...