Emacs autocomplete for payee

[walle...@gmail.com]

Hi there,

I just started with Beancount and find it might just be the right tool for me. Thanks for a great software.

While I am editing each transaction, I find payee is a very useful info especial in fava interface, where you can click payee to see all the linked transactions. To solve the issue of inconsistent payee names from various csv imports, I decided to just manually input the payee and leave the other transaction info from the import as narration.

My question is, is there a Emacs autocomplete for payee input, similar to the account autocompletion? This will save me from typing similar things over and over, and avoid typos. I am new to Emacs, as well. It could be a wrestle for me to create a new minor mode for this. Thanks for your help.

W.E.

[Martin Blais]

There isn't as far as I know.

Another approach could be to just tolerate the inconsistent input and write a plugin that cleans up the payees (processes the stream of transactions and fixes it up based on rules/regexps). Here, something like this:

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/default/beancount/plugins/fix_payees.py

 

W.E.

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[walle...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion surely sounds a lot more promising for me. I am no programmer, but I am much more comfortable with Python than Emacs script. I will look into it. Thanks for the awesome program.

On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 2:04:28 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote:

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:49 PM <walle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I just started with Beancount and find it might just be the right tool for me. Thanks for a great software.

While I am editing each transaction, I find payee is a very useful info especial in fava interface, where you can click payee to see all the linked transactions. To solve the issue of inconsistent payee names from various csv imports, I decided to just manually input the payee and leave the other transaction info from the import as narration.

My question is, is there a Emacs autocomplete for payee input, similar to the account autocompletion? This will save me from typing similar things over and over, and avoid typos. I am new to Emacs, as well. It could be a wrestle for me to create a new minor mode for this. Thanks for your help.

There isn't as far as I know.

Another approach could be to just tolerate the inconsistent input and write a plugin that cleans up the payees (processes the stream of transactions and fixes it up based on rules/regexps). Here, something like this:

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/default/beancount/plugins/fix_payees.py

 

W.E.

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