bean-doctor can give you the same sort of context as what you're seeing in
the web interface. Both the vim and emacs plugins support looking up a
transaction's context (I know the vim plugin is <leader>c). From there you
can just copy and paste the lines.
When getting the context in this way, the lots also contain the acquisition
date, it looks something like this:
Assets:BrokerageB:NYSE 100 NYSE {10.00 USD, 2017-01-01}
That will totally do exactly what you want. It is unfortunately verbose
though.
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:20 AM Daniel Clemente <n142...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > However, if you have lots of lots having to list them all (twice!) is a
> bit painful. Is there a shorter syntax that I haven't found?
> >
> > The scenario is: imagine after doing years of monthly purchases you
> switch to a new brokerage. You might have 100+ lots. Ideally you
> > just want to type something like
>
> When I need to move all lots, I write the transaction without the lots (so
> it doesn't balance), then in the web interface beancount shows me the
> error, and in some place it says the lots before the transaction, with all
> correct numbers, costs, dates, etc. Then I copy that text and paste it in
> my transaction, because it happens to use the same syntax. Then you need to
> do some editor macro to change signs. It's still a lot of lines but it's
> fast to do.
>
> I prefer writing all numbers explicitly, it's stricter. But there could be
> a plugin to rename an account, or to move „everything“ from one to account
> to the other. Mmmm… maybe „pad“ can do this?
>
>
> El Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Justus Pendleton va escriure:
> >
> > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
> > [1.1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> > [1.2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> > In a post from last year[1] there is an example of how to record an
> in-kind transfer which seems straightforward enough.
> >
> > 2016-02-01 * "In-kind Transfer"
> > Assets:BrokerageA:NYSE -100 NYSE {10.00 USD}
> > Assets:BrokerageA:NYSE -100 NYSE {11.00 USD}
> > Assets:BrokerageB:NYSE 100 NYSE {10.00 USD}
> > Assets:BrokerageB:NYSE 100 NYSE {11.00 USD}
> >
> > However, if you have lots of lots having to list them all (twice!) is a
> bit painful. Is there a shorter syntax that I haven't found?
> >
> > The scenario is: imagine after doing years of monthly purchases you
> switch to a new brokerage. You might have 100+ lots. Ideally you
> > just want to type something like
> >
> > A related question: the date associated with each lot at BrokerageB is
> now the date of the transaction for the in-kind transfer.
> > That's not strictly true under in-kind asset transfers (i.e. when
> calculating short vs long term capital gains); the date of the
> > original transaction gets carried across to the new brokerage. Is there
> a way to maintain the date for each lot?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Justus
> >
> > [1]:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beancount/transfer|sort:relevance/beancount/Vh6ogvMTOHQ/MDO32hPuFgAJ
> >
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "Beancount" group.
> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
> an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com.
> > To view this discussion on the web visit
> >
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/33c9ddfa-e7af-4073-9ab4-f6b2695047ce%40googlegroups.com
> .
> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
> >
> >
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Beancount" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/87y3q7k4a8.wl-n142857%40gmail.com
> .
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Beancount" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUgunHBgOMHd_%2BdFR3-tgGWu1YMtpbM8iK2uoseW6_GHKDg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
