How to activate Beancount mode in Emacs?

[Zhang Tianci]

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me out!

I am not a programmer and only have very basic programming knowledge, but I love the elegancy of Beancount.

I have Emacs 27 x86_64 installed on my Window computer, now I am completely lost on what to do next.

I have looked at the README of beancount-mode and the documentation of Emacs as well as searched online, but all the instructions make no sense to me. I can't even find the ~/.emacs.d/init.el file in my Emacs directory.

I need basic instruction on how to configure Emacs so that it works with .beancount file.

Sorry for asking such basic question, thanks for any help!!

[Ghanashyam Prabhu]

You may create the init.el or .emacs file may be created in your 

Linux home directory or .emacs.d directory. Emacs automatically 

searches for the init.el or .emacs file in these directories. 

 

I have the following added to my init.el file, you may refer this

to enable beancount-mode in Emacs

;; beancount setup
;; I cloned the beancount-mode repository to ~/repo/beancount-mode directory

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/repo/beancount-mode/")
(require 'beancount)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount\\'" . beancount-mode))

;; beancount outline-minor-mode - enables folding of lines starting with * or ;;;
(add-hook 'beancount-mode-hook #'outline-minor-mode)
(add-hook 'beancount-mode-hook #'linum-on)
(add-hook 'beancount-mode-hook #'column-number-mode)

(define-key beancount-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-n") #'outline-next-visible-heading)
(define-key beancount-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-p") #'outline-previous-visible-heading)

(defun my-enable-beancount-electric-indent
    (setq-local electric-indent-chars t))

/gp

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[Kang Chan]

same problem here...

[Szabó Tibor]

1. Save https://github.com/beancount/beancount-mode/blob/main/beancount.el in C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/

2. Add to C:/Users/<username>/AppData/ Roaming/.emacs the following 3 lines:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/")

(require 'beancount)

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

That's it.

Regards,

Tibor

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