On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:10 AM, <mplo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys hi, > > I am pretty new to plain text accounting, was using ledger CLI for week or > so, like the flexibility over cashGNU, and yesterday installed > beancount(using it with emacs). I have several questions: > > 1 How do you add today's date without typing? In ledger-mode i was using > ctrl+C ctrl+A, is there a shortcut in beancount mode? >
It's not defined in beancount-mode, which is intended to be small. I have a dynamic abbrev on this: (defun insert-date () ;; ISO 8601 format (insert (time-stamp-string "%:y-%02m-%02d"))) > 2 For ledger set-up i was using company to complete(like it more than C-c > ' insert account) - how can i use company with org + beancount mode? > Cause now tab is taken by Org to open/close lists > I have no idea, but surely you can override any of the bindings in Emacs. > 3 C-c l (bean-check) does not work for me. It says "bean check" is not > recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch > file. > (I am on Windows 10), what can be the problem? > Your PATH? Must be Windows-related. There are a few Windows users on this list, they might be able to chip in something. > 4 To use an account before hand it must be opened right? "open" command. > If by "beforehand" you mean that the date must precede that of any transaction posting to it, yes. Note that it doesn't have to appear before in the file; file order doesn't matter in Beancount, everything is sorted by date before processing. > 5 If had an account expenses:business:rent57, and closed it let say in > april 2018. > It still will be shown in reports for periods prior to april 2018, correct? > Which report? Generally speaking, the custom reports will try to show aggregations if they involved at least one transaction in their set of filtered transactions. (Note that the outlook for custom reports is for them to be eventually replaced by SQL queries.) > > Sorry if these questions are too basic, just trying to learn beancount. > There's never a dumb question. Thanks for asking, > > -- > 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/078f957c-fd04-41bf-999b-95c7a71f8c7e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/078f957c-fd04-41bf-999b-95c7a71f8c7e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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%2BhOV%3D3i_KfjC9mzTb%3DYijpjn%2BrntF8rkG5ar%2Bh9JBCLMew%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
