Trying to understand ledger-mode

Oliver Hardy

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Jul 27, 2020, 4:02:20 PM7/27/20

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Following the ledger-mode docs, in emacs I do C-c C-a. This brings up a calendar with today's date highlighted. I'm then instructed

to type a close match to the payee. Hitting enter then enters the date in my ~/journal.ledger file and that's it. No further details even

though the payee I'm entering appears several times through out the file.

What am I doing Wrong?

Thank you.

Ghanashyam Prabhu

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Jul 27, 2020, 7:39:47 PM7/27/20

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On my Emacs setup, I have company mode enabled and typing a part of the Payee automatically completes the Payee entry.

I tried disabling Company mode and typing in part of the Payee name, this time I have to Tab to initiate completion.

Tabbing further then cycles through different existing Payees. I have the following in my .emacs

(add-hook 'ledger-mode-hook

(lambda ()

(setq-local tab-always-indent 'complete) ;; I guess this does the job of completion of Payee Entries..

(setq-local completion-cycle-threshold t)

(setq-local ledger-complete-in-steps t)

(setq-local ledger-clear-whole-transaction t)

)

- Ghanashyam

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Oliver Hardy

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Jul 28, 2020, 9:05:02 AM7/28/20

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I thank you for that but it still doesn't work. Company mode enabled, company mode disabled. Tab, no tab. Partial payee name, complete payee name.

All I ever get is today's date with C-c C-a.

In addition to being new to ledger I'm also new to emacs so I'm sure I'm making some simple beginner mistake.

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 11:39:47 PM UTC, Ghanashyam Prabhu wrote:

On my Emacs setup, I have company mode enabled and typing a part of the Payee automatically completes the Payee entry.
I tried disabling Company mode and typing in part of the Payee name, this time I have to Tab to initiate completion.
Tabbing further then cycles through different existing Payees. I have the following in my .emacs

(add-hook 'ledger-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq-local tab-always-indent 'complete) ;; I guess this does the job of completion of Payee Entries..
(setq-local completion-cycle-threshold t)
(setq-local ledger-complete-in-steps t)
(setq-local ledger-clear-whole-transaction t)
)
)

- Ghanashyam

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 13:02, Oliver Hardy <ohar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Following the ledger-mode docs, in emacs I do C-c C-a. This brings up a calendar with today's date highlighted. I'm then instructed
to type a close match to the payee. Hitting enter then enters the date in my ~/journal.ledger file and that's it. No further details even
though the payee I'm entering appears several times through out the file.

What am I doing Wrong?

Thank you.

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Ghanashyam Prabhu

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Jul 28, 2020, 10:58:47 AM7/28/20

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I tried using a new init.el file on my Emacs so that I start with a fresh initialization file without any of my personal customization.

I used the below contents in my init.el.

;; use init file as the one provided under --load-init
(setq user-init-file (or load-file-name (buffer-file-name)))
(setq user-emacs-directory (file-name-directory user-init-file))
;; setup ledger mode
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/ledger-mode-20200530.1710/"))
(require 'ledger-mode)
(autoload 'ledger-mode "ledger-mode" "A major mode for Ledger" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ledger$" . ledger-mode))
;; some handy ledger mode hooks

(add-hook 'ledger-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq-local tab-always-indent 'complete)

(setq-local completion-cycle-threshold t)
(setq-local ledger-complete-in-steps t)
(setq-local ledger-clear-whole-transaction t)

Note that I've used the ledger-mode elisp package downloaded from melpa. You may find it here https://melpa.org/#/ledger-mode

With the init.el setup, I invoke emacs using the following command to load this init.el file while invoking Emacs.

emacs -q --load init.el

I wrote a sample example.ledger file for your reference

2019/10/23 * Opening Balance
Assets:Checking:bofa $25.00
Liabilities:cc-visabofa $0.00
Equity:
2020/07/26 * Salary
Income:Salary:biweekly -$1000.00
Assets:Checking:bofa
2020/07/28 * Ralphs Purchase
Expenses:Food:Grocery:ralphs $100.00
Assets:Checking:bofa
2020/07/28 * Vonns Shopping
Expenses:Food:Grocery:vonns $200.00
Assets:Checking:bofa
2020/07/28 * Chevron Gas
Expenses:Transportation:Auto:Gas:chevron $30.00

Assets:Checking:bofa

With this example file, if I type in a new entry with C-c C-a, after the date is added I type in * for indicating a "completed" transaction and then if I type in V and tab it, it auto-completes to Vonns Shopping.

Hope you find this useful.

Thanks

Ghanashyam

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Oliver Hardy

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Jul 28, 2020, 3:16:43 PM7/28/20

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I thinK I've finally gotten it to work.

I deleted emacs off my laptop as well as anything having to do with emacs. Shut everything down, unplugged and walked away for a few hours.

Came back, restarted, reinstalled emacs, ledger-mode and the rest. Following your examples step by step and then editing for my own set up

things seem to be working - at least for the 3 transactions I've entered so far.

I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you put into trying to help me with this.

Thank you very much

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