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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ob-ledger errors quietly
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:51:59 +0000
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On Friday, 20 Mar 2020 at 11:05, ob-ledger@tangential.info wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> This a ledger issue, not org.
>
> I would hope that if ledger throws an error, with exit code 1 and a
> message, that ob-ledger might notify me of this. The results were
> empty and the echo area was blank.

Yes, better error handling would be good.  You might like to propose
some code?  If ledger does return an error status, that could be caught
and handled, I would imagine.

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-433-g4b2628