* Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> [2018-03-31 10:02]: > Maybe you can elaborate on why not supporting spaces in account names > bothered you? I also had to migrate to '-' as I had spaces in my Ledger > account names, but in the end I realized dashes are better anyway: they > don't get in the way of dumb text processing of your ledger, like grep, > sed, and the like. Just curious :)
I can't speak for Scott but I think it's just what you're used to. I'm slowly getting used to the dashes and, as you say, they make parsing and stuff easier. But "Liabilities:Credit-Card" looks weird when you're used to "Liabilities:Credit Card". I'm sure I will get used to it in a few weeks though. In general, ledger is *extremely* permissive in what it allows. For example, Assets:♚_DASD!;?@#$!%^& *"(*(0-;♚ds is a perfectly valid account name in ledger. So I believe people moving from ledger to beancount might feel restricted in what they can do. Then again, I'm using the opportunity to clean up my account and commodity names, for example moving from "M&M" in ledger to MILESMORE in beancount. It will take some time getting used to the new names but in general I think I'll prefer them more longterm (quoted commodities in ledger are not ideal anyway because you have to double-quote them). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
