Error: Emacs File-local-variables error: (void-function beancount-mode)

[sadsada AJKnsjk]

Hello

I have been using beancount for sometime.  It works fine.

I recently switched operating systems to OpenSuse.

Current Emacs - GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.16.0)

Issues:

EMACS - Beancount Mode does not work

File-local-variables error: (void-function beancount-mode)

Location of beancount.el

~.emacs.d/lisp

also created init.el

Please help if you can, I am not sure what is wrong. Also trying to use VIM, which I have never used.  If I can get either to work would be great.

Thank You

[Chao Chen]

Have you put beancount.el in your emacs load-path? Make sure you can call beancount-mode from emacs.

Regards,

Chao

On Oct 7, 2022, at 08:26, sadsada AJKnsjk <nkj...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[sadsada AJKnsjk]

I appreciate the response.

Here is what i performed for init.el

(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/anthony/.emacs.d/lisp/")
(require 'beancount)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount\\'" . beancount-mode))

with this init.el

and beancount.el loaded in a directory

It will not work.  It used to work which makes it confusing.

Any help you guys can provide would be greatly as I now rely on this program for my finances!

[Chao Chen]

(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/anthony/.emacs.d/lisp/")

 

I guess `beancount.el` is the folder `beancount-mode`? If so you're supposed to put the folder in load-path, e.g., ` (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/anthony/.emacs.d/lisp/beancount-mode")`.

If `beancount.el` is already in your emacs load-path, you can just try "M-x load-file" to see whether it works.

 

Regards,

Chao