I'm fairly new to emacs myself but can answer those questions.
Straight is a package manager for emacs. It automates grabbing files from
github and updating them when versions change.
You can keep using your old code if you don't want to futz with it, you'd
just put cnsunyour's version of beancount.el somewhere on your disk and
change the
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/lisp/beancount.el")
line accordingly.
Then you need to set the variable `beancount-account-files`. So just add
(setq beancount-accounts-files
(directory-files
"/Users/jonathan/Documents/Finances/beandata/beancount/myjournal/"
'full
(rx ".beancount" eos)))
to your config also.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:09 PM jrgo...@gmail.com <jrgold...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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