input mode for Emacs

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

There are, afaict, two modes for Emacs which can be used for entering
Beancount transactions — ledger major mode and Beancount minor mode
along with e.g. org-mode, so I’d like to hear from experienced Beancount
users what they use, any pro/cons etc.?


Sincerely,
Gour

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[Martin Blais]

Ledger-mode has a lot of features to do interactive things, and a lot of history.

Beancount-mode is a much leaner, less featureful mode (and it's just a minor mode), but it has features to invoke debugging commands on the transaction closest to the cursor, those are very useful.

Personally I just use the features from Beancount-mode, but I don't see any reason one couldn't use both at the same time (ledger more w/ beancount minor mode) though I haven't tried.

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[Saša Janiška]

Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> writes:

> Ledger-mode has a lot of features to do interactive things, and a lot
> of history.

Indeed.

> Beancount-mode is a much leaner, less featureful mode (and it's just
> a minor mode), but it has features to invoke debugging commands on
> the transaction closest to the cursor, those are very useful.

I am mostly fine with the Beancount-mode for the input, but feel that my
productivity when doing reconcillation went down comparison with Gnucash
and ledger(-mode).

I enter balance assertion, but then hunting transactions in my
orgmode-ized journal organized by accounts and not chronologically seems
to be suboptimal. :-(

Any suggestion is welcome?


Sincerely,
Gour

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[Martin Blais]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Saša Janiška <go...@atmarama.com> wrote:

Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> writes:

> Ledger-mode has a lot of features to do interactive things, and a lot
> of history.

Indeed.

> Beancount-mode is a much leaner, less featureful mode (and it's just
> a minor mode), but it has features to invoke debugging commands on
> the transaction closest to the cursor, those are very useful.

I am mostly fine with the Beancount-mode for the input, but feel that my
productivity when doing reconcillation went down comparison with Gnucash
and ledger(-mode).

I enter balance assertion, but then hunting transactions in my
orgmode-ized journal organized by accounts and not chronologically seems
to be suboptimal. :-(

Any suggestion is welcome?

You can use bean-query to produce a chronological list of transactions for some subset of accounts and with suitable formatting ("bean-query <filename> select location" works), Emacs' next-error / previous-error could be used to bring the cursor to those in that order. This works.

Better even would be to write a script that uses knowledge of the previously failing balance assertion and that print all the intervening ones.  That would be a very helpful troubleshooting tool. I think something like this ought to live in the bean-web interface actually.