Revert "Added the concept of "balance setting transactions"."

This reverts commit c93175183e790cf7f1100dfd554197161a69e6fe.

The feature needs more thought and is not ready for 2.6.1.

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 * 2.6.1
 
-- Added the concept of "balance setting transactions":
-
-  # Setting an account's balance
-
-  You can now manually set an account's balance to whatever you want, at
-  any time.  Here's how it might look at the beginning of your Ledger
-  file:
-
-    2008/07/27 Starting fresh
-        Assets:Checking      = $1,000.00
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-
-  If Assets:Checking is empty, this is no different from omitting the
-  "=".  However, if Assets:Checking did have a prior balance, the amount
-  of the transaction will be auto-calculated so that the final balance
-  of Assets:Checking is now $1,000.00.
-
-  Let me give an example of this.  Say you have this:
-
-    2008/07/27 Starting fresh
-        Assets:Checking          $750.00
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-  
-    2008/07/27 Starting fresh
-        Assets:Checking      = $1,000.00
-        Equity:Adjustments
-
-  These two entries are exactly equivalent to these two:
-
-    2008/07/27 Starting fresh
-        Assets:Checking          $750.00
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-  
-    2008/07/27 Starting fresh
-        Assets:Checking          $250.00
-        Equity:Adjustments
-
-  The use of the "=" sign here is that it sets the transaction's amount
-  to whatever is required to satisfy the assignment.  This is the
-  behavior if the transaction's amount is left empty.
-
-  # Multiple commodities
-
-  As far as commodities go, the = sign only works if the account
-  balance's commodity matches the commodity of the amount after the
-  equals sign.  However, if the account has multiple commodities, only
-  the matching commodity is affected.  Here's what I mean:
-
-    2008/07/24 Opening Balance
-        Assets:Checking        = $250.00            ; we force set it
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-  
-    2008/07/24 Opening Balance
-        Assets:Checking      = EC 250.00          ; we force set it again
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-
-  This is an error, because $250.00 cannot be auto-balanced to match EC
-  250.00.  However:
-
-    2008/07/24 Opening Balance
-        Assets:Checking        = $250.00          ; we force set it again
-        Assets:Checking        EC 100.00          ; and add some EC's
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-  
-    2008/07/24 Opening Balance
-        Assets:Checking      = EC 250.00          ; we force set the EC's
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-
-  This is *not* an error, because the latter auto-balancing transaction
-  only affects the EC 100.00 part of the account's balance; the $250.00
-  part is left alone.
-
-  # Checking statement balances
-
-  When you reconcile a statement, there are typically one or more
-  transactions which result in a known balance.  Here's how you specify
-  that in your Ledger data:
-
-    2008/07/24 Opening Balance
-        Assets:Checking        = $100.00
-        Equity:Opening Balances
-  
-    2008/07/30 We spend money, with a known balance afterward
-        Expenses:Food             $20.00
-        Assets:Checking         = $80.00
-  
-    2008/07/30 Again we spend money, but this time with all the info
-        Expenses:Food             $20.00
-        Assets:Checking          $-20.00 = $60.00
-  
-    2008/07/30 This entry yield an 'unbalanced' error
-        Expenses:Food             $20.00
-        Assets:Checking          $-20.00 = $30.00
-
-  The last entry in this set fails to balance with an unbalanced
-  remainder of $-10.00.  Either the entry must be corrected, or you can
-  have Ledger deal with the remainder automatically:
-
-  2008/07/30 The fixed entry
-      Expenses:Food              $20.00
-      Assets:Checking           $-20.00 = $30.00
-      Equity:Adjustments
-
-  # Conclusion
-
-  This simple feature has all the utility of @check, plus auto-balancing
-  to match known target balances, plus the ability to guarantee that an
-  account which uses only one commodity does contain only that
-  commodity.
-
-  This feature slows down textual parsing slightly, does not affect
-  speed when loading from the binary cache.
-
-- The rest of the changes in the version is all bug fixes (around 45 of
-  them).
+- This version has no new features, it's all bug fixes.
 
 * 2.6.0.90