On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Dominik Aumayr <domi...@aumayr.name> wrote:
> I think that could be very useful. I think there needs to be some > discussion about the syntax before you start implementing. > > Would it look like this? > > ```beancount > > 2018-03-30 * "Hooli Shop" "Buy hoodie" > Expenses:Fashion 10.00 USD > Assets:Cash > > marker Assets:US:* > > 2018-03-31 * "Walgreens" "Groceries" > Expenses:Groceries 45.00 USD > Assets:US:BoA:Checking > > ``` Hmm, the few non-directive keywords I have at the moment don't have proper metadata (e.g. line number). I was thinking of making it a directive instead. e.g. 2018-03-30 marker "...any string..." The date has no meaning (but it you can think of a useful meaning I can add one.) Also, the account name that's there, how is it used? Would it not be more general to make it a general string? > > > Am 28.03.2018 um 04:22 schrieb Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca>: > > > > I could promote the custom entry as a native one. > > Let's call it "marker". > > Would that be useful? > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 2:04 AM, <dominik.aumayr.notificati...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Fava has such a feature (and code), see the "insert-entry"-option here: > https://fava.pythonanywhere.com/example-with-budgets/help/options/ > > > > Basically it works like this: You can add custom "insert-entry" entries > with a RegEx, and when adding a transaction, the position where it should > go in the file is determined by those custom entries. > > > > Am Montag, 26. März 2018 22:39:48 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Blais: > > New issue 257: Create a section classifier for new transactions > > https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/257/create-a- > section-classifier-for-new > > > > Martin Blais: > > > > There's nothing like that in the Beancount codebase. I've thought about > building something to automatically insert imported transactions in the > right "section" (I personally use org-mode, where each section corresponds > to an institution and its related group of accounts) but it's unclear > whether that would generalize. > > > > I think you could turn this into a simple classification problem. Given > some syntax for splitting up an input file into sections (e.g., some > regular expression matching on a title or separator), you now have groups > of transactions and inputs. Somehow reduce this to a simple model for > classifying which section an incoming transaction matches with highest > probability and insert it there. Or more appropriately - since transactions > are imported in groups - find the section that best matches all the > transactions in the imported files and insert at the end there. > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Michael Droogleever <droo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I believe it is against the design of beancount, but is there any > existing code which attempts to add transactions to an existing beancount > file. Assuming the entries in the file are grouped by asset account, it > would need to append the entry to the subsection of entries all from the > same account. > > > > Responsible: blais > > > > -- > > 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/4694718a-6afc-4346-80de-c7c78bd87de6%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/CAK21%2BhMKca%3DWb8Jv45k9tHWHZ%2Bv2vbsG14yXtq4RyC6M9tB1mg% > 40mail.gmail.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/B436BAF8-B56D-4FED-B9A1-F1B408AE6BD1%40aumayr.name. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. 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