How to use plugin in beancount (beancount.plugins.implicit_prices) ?

[Booster Hidrogen]

Hi, sorry for stupid question because I'm still not so sure how to use plugin, for example >plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices", any references how to use it ? thanks

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Booster Hidrogen <booster...@gmail.com> [2020-08-02 01:18]:

> Hi, sorry for stupid question because I'm still not so sure how to use
> plugin, for example >plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices", any
> references how to use it ? thanks

You add the following line to your .beancount file to activate the
plugin:

plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices"

That's it. When you add this plugin, price info via @ and @@ will
generate price entries.
--
Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> [2020-08-02 17:40]:

> You add the following line to your .beancount file to activate the
> plugin:
>
> plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices"
>
> That's it. When you add this plugin, price info via @ and @@ will
> generate price entries.

Full example. Put this in test.beancount:

;---------------------
plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices"

2000-01-01 open Assets:Bank
2000-01-01 open Expenses:Snacks

2020-08-02 * "Bought chocolate"
Expenses:Snacks 1.00 EUR @ 0.90 GBP
Assets:Bank -0.90 GBP
;---------------------

Now run:

bean-report test.beancount print | grep price

This will show:

2020-08-02 price EUR 0.90 GBP

This was generated by the implicit_prices plugin.

[Booster Hidrogen]

Thank you for the examples, so basically the built in plugin isn't directly editing the beancount file.

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Booster Hidrogen <booster...@gmail.com> [2020-08-02 04:56]:

> Thank you for the examples, so basically the built in plugin isn't directly
> editing the beancount file.

Correct. Beancount plugins modify the entries (in memory) when the
file is loaded by beancount.

Martin