print removes commodity directive

[Colin Dean]

I’m updating my finances for the first time in a while starting afresh: a whole new transaction record.

Something I’ve somehow never hit before: My workflow is to append the output of ledger-autosync to my tx record, make adjustments, categorize, commit, then sort and format using ledger print. What I’m noticing is that my commodity directive is getting stripped.

$ cat test.ledger
commodity USD
  alias $
  format 1,000.00

2020/06/16 Test
  Expenses    $56
  Assets      -56 USD


$ ledger -f test.ledger bal
             -56 USD  Assets
              56 USD  Expenses
--------------------
                   0

$ ledger -f test.ledger print
2020/06/16 Test
    Expenses                                  56 USD
    Assets

This is making is hard to intermix $ and USD, as ledger-autosync mixes the two outputs depending on the converter in use and I tend to use USD when I do things manually.

Is there a way to disable removing the commodity? I understand that ‘print’ is supposed to output the most space-efficient representation of the tx log, but it’s annoying to have to re-add the commodity directive every time I sort.

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Colin Dean

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[Martin Michlmayr]

* Colin Dean <coli...@gmail.com> [2020-06-15 14:23]:

> Is there a way to disable removing the commodity? I understand that
> ‘print’ is supposed to output the most space-efficient
> representation of the tx log, but it’s annoying to have to re-add
> the commodity directive every time I sort.

I'm not sure why $ is removed, but
print --raw
works.
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[Robin H. Johnson]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:23:09PM -0700, Colin Dean wrote:
> I’m updating my finances for the first time in a while starting afresh: a
> whole new transaction record.
>
> Something I’ve somehow never hit before: My workflow is to append the
> output of ledger-autosync to my tx record, make adjustments, categorize,
> commit, then sort and format using ledger print. What I’m noticing is that
> my commodity directive is getting stripped.
>
> $ cat test.ledger
> commodity USD
> alias $
> format 1,000.00
>
> 2020/06/16 Test
> Expenses $56
> Assets -56 USD

'alias' provides an alternate way to INPUT entries.
It is converted and printed in the canonical format.

There's a note in the infodoc that the 'format' directive:
"In the future, using this directive will disable Ledger's observation
of other ways that commodity is used, and will provide the “canonical”
representation."

These two examples will produce different output:
===

commodity USD
alias $
format 1,000.00

2020/06/16 Test
Expenses $56
Assets -56 USD

===
commodity $
alias USD

format 1,000.00

2020/06/16 Test
Expenses $56
Assets -56 USD

====

>
>
> $ ledger -f test.ledger bal
> -56 USD Assets
> 56 USD Expenses
> --------------------
> 0
>
> $ ledger -f test.ledger print
> 2020/06/16 Test
> Expenses 56 USD
> Assets
>
> This is making is hard to intermix $ and USD, as ledger-autosync mixes the
> two outputs depending on the converter in use and I tend to use USD when I
> do things manually.

I think ledger-autosync should probably gain options to convert
consistently, and then it would match your USD manual inputs.

>
> Is there a way to disable removing the commodity? I understand that ‘print’
> is supposed to output the most space-efficient representation of the tx
> log, but it’s annoying to have to re-add the commodity directive every time
> I sort.

It converts to the canonical format, which other than the --raw option,
doesn't help you.


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[Colin Dean]

Thanks, it looks like --raw is what I want.

[Colin Dean]

Second thought, it's not. Using 

ledger -f 2020.ledger print -S d --raw > 2020-s.ledger

still dropped the commodity directive.