Different file for completions

[csamak]

Would it make sense to allow specifying two journal files - one for completions and one for writes?

This would be useful with multiple journal files. With one journal file per year (2022.journal, 2023.journal, etc), completions become fairly useless every January. Separate files in the config would allow completion suggestions from an all.journal (which includes all individual files) while still only writing to 2023.journal.

[simonmichael]

I don't relish complicating things, but yes I too have wanted something like this, also for hledger add, for editor modes like ledger-mode, and for history-aware CSV conversion/import.

[hpdeifel]

yep, I've also wanted this on occasion 👍

[soenderg]

That would be extremely useful! I'd really appreciate this too. I keep my hledger journals per year, so as have already been mentioned, completion only becomes useful quite a bit in the new year. Some yearly expenses won't complete until very late in the year. It would be awesome if hledger-iadd could just read one (or more) journals only for completion purposes.

[simonmichael]

not sure if hledger-iadd does this but it works this way in hledger add: you can specify any number of files with -f options or include directives, all used for history, and the first -f file is the one that will be written to.

[soenderg]

hledger-iadd unfortunately doesn't work this way. But that exact behaviour would be so helpful. Maybe this could be my first "learning Haskell" oportunity.