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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) | |
| tree | 0e8ec4c444700fd996eefead32455ec7086bff08 /doc | |
| parent | 230fa31ba3087884c0701e9a4fe1c44a184e6f27 (diff) | |
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Adding option --recursive-aliases, adding documentation to man-page and manual
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ledger3.texi | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/ledger.1 b/doc/ledger.1 index 659d3fbb..ecd97ecc 100644 --- a/doc/ledger.1 +++ b/doc/ledger.1 @@ -420,6 +420,9 @@ For use only with the command, it causes Ledger to print out matching entries exactly as they appeared in the original journal file. .It Fl \-real Pq Fl R +.It Fl \-recursive-aliases +Causes ledger to try to expand aliases recursively, i.e. try to expand +the result of an earlier expansion again, until no more expansions apply. .It Fl \-register-format Ar FMT .It Fl \-related Pq Fl r .It Fl \-related-all 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. |