Ledger Reconcile Can't Find Included Files

[sdubinsky]

Emacs version: 29.3
ledger version: 3.2.1-20200518
ledger-mode version: 20240537.2134

When I try to reconcile a file that includes another file, it errors out with: While parsing file "", line 5: Error: File to include was not found: "reconcile2.dat"

I ran this under emacs -Q to be sure.

reconcile1.dat:

include ./reconcile2.dat

2024-01-01 test
    Test1                                         $1
    Test3

reconcile2.dat:

2024-01-01 test2
    Test3                                         $3
    Test4

I tried it both with and without the ./ in the pathname.

[sdubinsky]

@Mikeledger I have no idea what that means.

[sdubinsky]

Hi @tbm I think you're the most active support guy? I'm pretty sure this is spam.

[tbm]

@sdubinsky some people confuse ledger-cli with Ledger the hardware crypto wallet; anyway, I deleted the comments.

Regarding your issue, should that be moved to https://github.com/ledger/ledger-mode ? If I understand right, it's an issue with the Emacs mode and not with ledger itself(?).

[sdubinsky]

@tbm Oh yes, you're right. I'll put it there.

[tbm]

I can move it there

[sdubinsky]

Oh oops, that works too.

[enderw88]

This is not a bug. Just a feature I never implemented. It requires a lot more work than it’s worth to me. No one has ever wanted to tackle it. Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ [image: missile_flyout] enderw88.wordpress.com

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[sdubinsky]

Oh ok, fair enough.

For anyone else, my workaround is just to comment that line out before i do a reconcile.

[bcc32]

@sdubinsky does it look like you might have the issue in #329? Maybe you just need to upgrade ledger itself?

I can't reproduce the issue you described:

$ ledger --version
Ledger 3.3.2-20230330

My ledger-mode is at 2681836 in my personal fork, but that's based on a recent master-branch commit c66e3e9.

[sdubinsky]

No, it works in ledger itself.

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[bcc32]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your last comment. Just to clarify, the issue in #329 is that (the bad version of) ledger doesn't handle include properly when called like so:

ledger b -f - <reconcile1.dat

whereas the buggy build of ledger still behaves properly when running:

ledger b -f reconcile1.dat

Does your version of ledger behave properly when running the above commands?

[sdubinsky]

Yes. As I said, my files work in ledger itself, they only break in ledger-mode.

[bgainor]

I'm the reporter of #329, and FWIW this was fixed for me when I upgraded ledger to 3.3.2. I had a similar problem, where the file was being correctly included when I ran ledger from the command line, but not from ledger-reconcile in Emacs. It's worth noting that my include statement doesn't have the ./; I'm just including the basename of the file (which is in the same directory as my main ledger file), so if upgrading still doesn't fix it for you, you might try that.