I'm not 100% sure, but I think the limitation is related to the lexer. The grammar for flags plays not to nicely with other things, and I think this is one of them. However, I think I _may_ be able to change the definition to that of Alan's suggestion for account name components beyond the first one.
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/138/make-it-possible-to-use-account-names-with On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Luciano <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Quick question. Is there a reason why account and commodity names need to > be at least two characters? > Does it make parsing easier or is it just a matter of preference? > > I have some holdings of stock with single letter tickers and it'd be nice > to use their actual tickers in account and commodity names. > Obviously not a big deal, just a minor annoyance, but if it's a trivial > change to the grammar I'd welcome it. > > I'll dig into the codebase at some point but I'm just now learning Python > so it might be a while. > > Regards, > Luciano > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/79428dba-3a12-4160-8122-89bd3c301ddf%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/79428dba-3a12-4160-8122-89bd3c301ddf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhP0BBd1WwPiK1EWGOJQ3Sx7CPPJoYjzHUEd49g7XmwnxQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
