Feature request: support include directives - included beancount ledgers yield Invalid reference errors

[jaanli]

Minimal working example:

Contents of transactions.beancount:

include "accounts.beancount"
include "transactions/bankname/type/institution_start=YYYY-MM-DD_end=YYYY-MM-DD.beancount"

Contents of accounts.beancount:

1970-01-01 open Assets:Checking:Bank
1970-01-01 open Expenses:Utility-Payment

Contents of institution_start=YYYY-MM-DD_end=YYYY-MM-DD.beancount:

2024-02-28 * "COMPANY"
  Expenses:Utility-Payment        12.99 USD
  Assets:Checking:Bank

Result when opening this file in beancount:

It seems to not respect the include statement that correctly defines these accounts.

I'm likely missing something basic as I had GPT-4 teach me about beancount yesterday (details: https://gist.github.com/jaanli/1f735ce0ddec4aa4d1fccb4535f3843f).

Please let me know if this is already supported - if not, would love to see how hard this would be to implement as it could lead to an easy to maintain sharded folder structure. (We have a few decades of accounts spread out over multiple countries and currencies to track.)

The extension is amazing!! Thank you for making this 🙏

[mengqi92]

Please make sure you have configured mainBeanFile in the .vscode/settings.json (see this readme).

{
  "beancount.mainBeanFile": "accounts.beancount"
}

I reproed the issue and the errors are now gone after I added the mainBeanFile setting.

Without mainBeanFile

With mainBeanFile