Martin, thank you for the detailed answer! On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 1:37:40 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:10 AM, <mpl...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to bean...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> 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. >> > >
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