autobean.sorted: find out misplaced / misdated transactions

[Archimedes Smith]

Very often I make mistakes on dates. For example:

• After copy-pasting transactions, I forgot to update their dates.
• When a new year starts, I keep typing date in the previous year.

This can be really confusing: I see my balance assertion failing, but out of so many transactions between the two balance assertions, who's the culprit? Is this about misdated transactions, missing / duplicated postings, bad amounts / accounts / currencies, ..., or even worse, a combination of them?

Therefore, I made this git.io/autobean.sorted plugin which helps identifying misplaced or misdated directives, by warning on those directives not following a non-descending order by date in the file. Check it out if you are interested!

[Martin Blais]

Added to contrib doc. Thank you!

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[Martin Michlmayr]

* Archimedes Smith <seia...@gmail.com> [2021-06-15 16:58]:

> Therefore, I made this git.io/autobean.sorted plugin which helps
> identifying misplaced or misdated directives, by warning on those
> directives not following a non-descending order by date in the file.

The file_ordering plugin from https://github.com/zacchiro/beancount-plugins-zack/
does the same.

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