1. "draft" is dead. The man page is very old. Use the ledger documentation available at http://enderw88.wordpress.com/ledger-documentation/ (this is not the official documentation, but it is my latest release. It hasn;t gotten scooped into the official repo yet)
2. No. Good idea though. I will add a feature request to bugzilla On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 23:22, David Whitmarsh <dwhitma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using $ ledger --version > Ledger 3.0.0-20110325, the command-line accounting tool > > Built from homebrew using --HEAD and I have a couple of questions > regarding the entry/xact command. > > 1) The ledger.1 man page lists a command called draft, but as far as I > can tell it doesn't exist. I can understand the man page being behind > the code, but is the man page ahead of the code or just wrong? > > 2) When using the entry command is there an easy way to specify that > the transaction occurred yesterday or the day before. I imagine > something like > $ledger entry t-1 Blah groceries '$3.41' > would give something like (today is 2012/01/26) > 2012/01/25 Blah > Expenses:Dining:Groceries $3.41 > Liabilities:CC:Amex > > and t-2 would give the same entry but with the date of 2012/01/24. > > Thanks, > David > > PS, how do I determine what the git sha version string this ledger was > built from is? > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com