hledger, unknown flag

[ricardoaiglesias]

Context

I run emacs under the "doom-emacs" set of configurations, where I recently enabled ledger mode. The issue occurs when running ledger-report (C-c C-o C-r) on a file. I have both ledger and hledger installed.

I am running Ubuntu, 20.04LTS.

What's the expected behavior?

When I run hledger-report, a report is shown.

What is the actual behavior?

When I run the command, I have the following string at the command prompt:

hledger -f /home/hyperion/Desktop/test.ledger reg Assets\:Bank\:Checking

Upon entering it, I get the following screen in the *Ledger Report* buffer.

Running the hledger command in the terminal works fine, so I believe it is something to do with the flags passed in to the command.

When changing from hledger to ledger on the command, it works fine, but I would like to know what flags are passed in (that are not shown in the *Ledger Report* buffer).

Extra Information

Below is a sample file I created to test the problem.

test.ledger

[jabranham]

The [[ledger-mode-flags]] bit in some reports gets replaced with things. You can see what gets replaced in ledger-report--compute-extra-args. In this case, setting ledger-report--cmd-needs-links-p to nil will solve the issue.

BTW - I'm not sure if we support hledger officially or not

[ricardoaiglesias]

Thank you for the response!
I was not able to find the variable in question through C-h v, but in any case, I did
(setq ledger-report--cmd-needs-links-p nil)

and had a similar result.

I was unaware that hledger was not supported, so will likely continue using ledger.
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[jabranham]

There's an old open issue about hledger: #56. So probably some people use ledger-mode just fine with it.

Seems like your issue is solved though so I'm closing this ticket.

[purcell]

I was unaware that hledger was not supported, so will likely continue using ledger.

I think it's just "less supported", and all our tests run against "ledger".