Thanks for the pointer. This was very helpful. I'm not familiar enough with
lisp and what I need to do to get it to work for me--currently getting a
read error when launching emacs. My ".emacs" file had the following lines
(now commented out) below that worked fine. I changed to what is "new"
below based on following that link. Does "straight" code below mean it
reads the beancount.el file from GitHub directly? Should I read in the
beancount.el in a different way?
thanks,
Jonathan
OLD
====
;;(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/lisp/beancount.el")
;;(require 'beancount)
;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount\\'" . beancount-mode))
NEW
====
(use-package beancount
:straight (beancount
:type git
:host github
:repo "cnsunyour/beancount.el")
:bind
("C-M-b" . (lambda ()
(interactive)
(find-file
"/Users/jonathan/Documents/Finances/beandata/beancount/myjournal/accounts.beancount")))
:mode
("\\.bean\\(?:count\\)?\\'" . beancount-mode)
:config
(setq beancount-accounts-files
(directory-files
"/Users/jonathan/Documents/Finances/beandata/beancount/myjournal/"
'full
(rx ".beancount" eos))))
On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:17:24 AM UTC+12 b...@bben.us wrote:
> Relevant thread:
> https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/QOJInwm1TZ0/m/ggsT1AsyAQAJ
>
> I was using https://github.com/cnsunyour/beancount.el previously to get
> completion with accounts defined in different files. However I've since
> merged into one file and am using the official plugin. Daniele mentioned
> there is support for this in the official plugin but I haven't tried it out
> myself.
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:05 PM Jonathan Goldman <jrgo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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....@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
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