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| author | Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> | 2014-02-26 09:29:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Feigl <craven@gmx.net> | 2014-02-26 09:29:31 +0100 |
| commit | 75b0a5d8ff22abeac8c4f502154159f998ffbe99 (patch) | |
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Adding option --recursive-aliases, adding documentation to man-page and manual
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diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index 051c7c76..1a8fd9aa 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -2161,8 +2161,9 @@ The aliases are only in effect for transactions read in after the alias is defined and are affected by @code{account} directives that precede them. -Aliases can refer to other aliases, the following example produces exactly -the same accounts as the preceding one: +With the option @option{--recursive-aliases}, aliases can refer to other aliases, +the following example produces exactly the same transactions and account names +as the preceding one: @smallexample alias Entertainment=Expenses:Entertainment @@ -5814,6 +5815,11 @@ correct, and if it finds a new account or commodity (same as a misspelled commodity or account) it will issue a warning giving you the file and line number of the problem. +@item --recursive-aliases +Normally, ledger only expands aliases once. With this option, ledger tries +to expand the result of alias expansion recursively, until no more expansions +apply. + @item --time-colon The @option{--time-colon} option will display the value for a seconds based commodity as real hours and minutes. |