You can now toggle showing only cleared items in the accounts and
register screens, with C (like the command-line flag).
The f key has been changed to F for consistency (we don't have this as a
command-line flag, though we could, though Ledger uses it for something
different).
Screen titles have been tweaked, eg switching the cyan and yellow.
Screen help has been squeezed to fit better in 80 columns.
There are now six man pages, one for each main executable and file
format, generated from markdown by the mighty pandoc. They are basically
the content of the user manual, split up and moved into the appropriate
package directory. I've also committed the generated man files.
The man pages' markdown source (hledger/hledger.1.md,
hledger-lib/hledger_journal.5.md etc.) are now the master documentation
files. The plan is to concatenate them (with a little munging) to form
the all-in-one user manual for the website, at release time. This also
separates the hledger.org user manual from the latest doc commits, which
should simplify website management.
On the accounts screen, the g key now reloads the journal if possible.
With large journals, there may be a noticeable delay before the screen updates.
If there's a problem reading the journal file(s), this has no effect.
Make these modules' names more like the heavily-used types they
define (CliOpts, UIOpts, WebOpts). This is consistent with
RawOptions and ReportOptions, and helps with code navigation.
As the comment says:
In hledger,
- reportopts{depth_} indicates --depth options
- reportopts{query_} is the query arguments as a string
- the report query is based on both of these.
For hledger-ui, currently, we move depth: arguments out of reportopts{query_}
and into reportopts{depth_}, so that depth and other kinds of filter query
can be displayed (and controlled) independently.
- clean up options a bit, enable -V/--value (affects the accounts screen)
- more informative top/bottom borders, including key help
- number keys adjust the depth limit (accounts screen)
- remove obsolete args parameter
--no-elide ensures that a regular, clear account hierarchy is displayed.
The downside is that when you are filtering on account, say
assets🏦checking, it's unclear what to show when the user drills
down on the "assets" and "bank" parent accounts, without causing confusion.
- register screen:
- smarter width-sensitive layout, with multi-commodity amounts on one line
- items are sorted in date order
- jumps to the latest item by default, with consistent scroll position
- more prerendering, might speed up movement/paging slightly
- themes! --theme to select, --help to list (current themes: default, terminal, greenterm)
- border tweaks - dropped side borders, added side padding
The register screen is now like the register view in hledger-web (and
other accounting systems), rather than hledger's register command.
This means:
- it shows transactions affecting a particular current account, rather
than postings matching a pattern.
- Each line represents a whole transaction.
- The account field shows the *other* account being transacted with.
When there is more than one, they are all listed, abbreviated and
marked with "(split)".
- The amount field shows the effect of the transaction on the current
account; positive for an inflow to this account, negative for an
outflow.
- The balance field should usually show the current account's historic
balance as of the transaction date, even when you change the report
start date. (Not working yet - currently it always shows the running
total).
- Transactions are listed most recent first, currently.
hledger-ui (formerly hledger-vty) is now built on brick, a new
declarative UI layer built on vty. This brings much new power, and
should make the UI much easier to grow and maintain.
At this point, functionality and performance are similar to the old
version. There's no journal entries screen, but entering the postings
screen jumps to the latest posting, and layout is better (multiple
commodities are rendered on one line).
Requires unreleased brick from github (HEAD or some branch) for now.
