Thanks for confirming what I thought was the case @TRS-80. Yes I want to create a modification to Emacs Lisp code to specify a specific file to load. In my case I have one file called "journal.beancount" that loads "accounts.beancount" and then all the transactions which are organized by real-world accounts. So ideally all I need to do is load "accounts.beancount" and then when I'm editing any specific transactions file I have access to type-ahead for any of the accounts found in accounts.beancount.
I'm not yet comfortable with Emacs Lisp. I'll try to figure it out but if anyone knows how to do this modification easily that would save me a lot of time and perhaps be generally useful as I think there are others who split up their beancount data among multiple files. Thanks, Jonathan On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 7:31 AM TRS-80 <lists.trs...@isnotmyreal.name> wrote: > On 2021-04-28 07:45, jrgo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Does beancount mode only look within the current document to create an > > index of accounts for possible autocomplete? > > I am pretty sure that beancount-mode only collects from current > buffer. If you take a look at the function `beancount-insert-account' > it in turn calls `beancount-collect', if you read the docstring for > that function it says: > > "Return an unique list of REGEXP group N in the current buffer." > > > Is there anyway to modify this to point to another file with all the > > accounts I have? I have a file called "accounts.beancount" that > > contains all the beancount accounts I want to use to populate > > With a little custom Emacs Lisp, anything is possible. ;) For > example, I have made my own little custom function to insert any of my > Beancount account names anywhere in any buffer (or insert transfer > transactions involving 2 accounts, and many others). > > > I'm trying to organize my beancount files a bit to more easily > > rollback changes. > > The tool you may be looking for to "rollback changes" is a good text > editor and/or git. Although some of concepts may be foreign to you at > first if you never did any some sort of development. > > So I suppose the answer (for /you/) depends on how comfortable you are > with Emacs, Emacs Lisp, git, and/or other tools, as there are many > different ways to skin this particular cat. > > Myself (and some others here) are big proponents, users, and lovers of > Emacs, for many different reasons which go far beyond the scope of > this particular issue. Therefore our solutions involve Emacs. > However that might not be your cup of tea. > > Cheers, > TRS-80 > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/68aebfe4c176ef7a766d87f086826f58%40isnotmyreal.name > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CANUAcYdfE7kjQcyvKfqw7zmXGvis9kUg%2B5mFSwK8OpU3jWOqGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
