'hledger add' not using declared payees

[LucaBH]

Hi.

My typical workflow is to have separated, yearly journals, adding transactions using 'hledger add' command in terminal. And I heavily use payees, many of them are general enough to be used multiple times, across all the years.

This way, unfortunately, when I start over a new year, the set of payees I used in the past gets lost, which means the auto-completion of the Description field doesn't work anymore -- at leat during initial weeks.

I tried to overcome the issue building a set of declared payees (via 'payee' directive) in a single journal file included in the yearly file. However 'hledger add' seems not caring about declared payees.

Is there a solution I'm not seeing?

Thank you, regards

Luca

[Simon Michael]

Thanks for the report. As a workaround, can you just 

hledger add -f NEW -f OLD for now ?

(IIRC it adds to the first). 

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Hi.

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[LucaBH]

Yes.

It's a bit cumbersome -- and unfortunately makes the LEDGER_FILE environment variable useless -- but I can overcome this through a shell script automatically determining the NEW and OLD journal files.

Thank you Simon,

Luca 

[Simon Michael]

I added this to the dev version - Description now autocompletes declared payees and used payees (written left of |) as well as full descriptions.

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[LucaBH]

Thank you very much Simon. I'll give a try in the next release.

Bye

Luca