Refresh accounts and account autocomplete in emacs

[Robert Hotchkiss]

Hi,

I am using beancount and emacs - beancount major mode.

My list of accounts with the 'open' directive are in a different file and this file is 'include' in my transaction beancount file.

Autocomplete for accounts only works if that account is already specified in an existing transaction in a the beancount file. If an account is defined in the account file but not yet used in a transaction in the beancount file, then autocomplete (by starting to type an account then click TAB) does not work. 

Is this expected behavior?

Since I am just now starting out with Beancount and I already created my accounts beancount file, I would like auto-complete to work for all 'open' accounts.

If I enter "C-c r" then emacs responds with "C-c r is undefined" - I was hoping that C-c r 'refresh account list' would perhaps "load" the imported account file.  So two questions:

1) Does anyone know how to troubleshoot the "C-c r is undefined" message

2) What specifically does 'refresh account list' do if it is working?

Notes:

- I have beancount installed in a venv virtual environment, but I am not running emacs in this activated venv virtualenvironment, but beancount mode still seems to work fine without activating a virtual environment in emacs. But on the command line, I must ". bin/activate" in order to run bean-check for example

My init.el is:

;; ====================

;; Beancount

;; ====================

(add-to-list 'load-path "<path to>/beancount/elisp")

(require 'beancount)

;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount\\'" . beancount-mode))

;; Automatically open .beancount files in beancount-mode.

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount$" . beancount-mode))

;; Automatically enable outline-mode. (for beancount)

(add-hook 'beancount-mode-hook #'outline-minor-mode)

;; ====================

;; end of Beancount

;; ====================

[Robert Hotchkiss]

Also I installed beancount using pip, and I did not install beancount.el but am referencing beancount.el from the beancount installation. So not sure if I did the install correctly. I don't see beancount in melpha.

On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 11:36:02 AM UTC-7, Robert Hotchkiss wrote:

Hi,

I am using beancount and emacs - beancount major mode.

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