docs: warn about flag/value spacing bug

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Simon Michael 2013-12-07 06:27:03 -08:00
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@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ somewhere after COMMAND, not before it. These input and help-related
options can appear anywhere: `-f`, `--rules-file`, `--alias`,
`--help`, `--debug`, `--version`.
Note: at present there is an issue with hledger's command-line option handling:
there can not be a space between a flag and its value. So eg you must
use `-w100` or `--width=100`, not `-w 100` or `--width 100`.
Arguments are also command-specific, but usually they form a
[query](#queries) which selects a subset of the journal, eg transactions
in a certain account.