ledger-accounts-file?

[stan laurel]

A minor point, but it annoys me when I can't figure something out.

In ledger-mode customization one of the first items is ledger-accounts-file:  The path to an optional file in which all accounts are used or declared.

When I first look at this the entered value is 'nil'  (mismatch).

I edit to read ~/Accounts.ledger which is where all my accounts are listed and it still comes back 'mismatch'.

What value is suppooses to go into this field?

Thanks you

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wednesday, 27 Oct 2021 at 14:53, stan laurel wrote:
> I edit to read ~/Accounts.ledger which is where all my accounts are listed
> and it still comes back 'mismatch'.

Untested but maybe ledger requires the full path name, i.e. it may not
expand ~?

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[stan laurel]

Tried that - no good. As I said, it's a minor point and everything seems to work as it should. I just find it

very frustrating that I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[Mykola Nikishov]

In a scratch buffer:

(let ((ledger-accounts-file "/home/user/accounts.ledger"))
(ledger-accounts-list))

Works for me for both "/home/user/accounts.ledger" and
"~/accounts.ledger". When nil, it would use current buffer as a source.

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