How to install beancount for use in emacs?

[Steve Harmer]

The title says it all. I apologize for asking such a fundamental question, but I've spent days (literally) trying to figure it out.  I've done what the documentation suggested, but that doesn't work.   If I open a .beancount file, I don't get the minor mode, and if I force the mode using " -*- mode:beancount -*-" it doesn't work either.

For background, I installed beancount using pip.  Everything with beancount works fine.  My emacs is actually spacemacs, so perhaps that is  the issue?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as I am really liking beancount (and fava), but would really like better autocompletion when entering transactions.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

[Martin Blais]

Can you evaluate (require 'beancount)? Does that work?

You can see my config here:

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/etc/emacsrc

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[Steve Harmer]

Thanks for your help. When I add that to my config file (.spacemacs) I get the error that ‘beancount’ file/folder cannot be found.

I’m out of town at the moment with no internet (except on my phone) so I can’t scroll through your config file at the moment. I will have a look on Sunday when I’m back. I have a feeling I’m missing something fundamental... I’m no expert with Emacs.

And lest I forget to mention it, thanks for this great program. It’s amazing.

[Martin Blais]

Thanks for your nice words.

If the file cannot be found, it's probably that it's not on your load-path.

The load-path is an Emacs variable which provides a list of directories to search for libraries.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LoadPath

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[Metin Akat]

I also use spacemacs and this is what I have in my "user-config" section of .spacemacs:

  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/code/beancount/editors/emacs/")

  (require 'beancount)

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

It works

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[Steve Harmer]

Perfect thanks! It’s working now. Really appreciate the help.