On 2021-04-30 02:09, jrgo...@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
Emacs (and the language it's mostly written in, Emacs Lisp) are very
powerful and versatile. Later on, when you are not in a hurry to see
some early success, I can highly recommend the built-in Tutorial (C-h
t), and then after that, the Introduction to Emacs Lisp (C-h i m intro
<RET>). Even the first few pages of that Elisp Intro can begin to
de-mystify a lot of otherwise cryptic error messages.
"straight"
Personally, I'm not a fan of adding complexity, especially if you are
already new to Emacs in general. I would instead (strongly) recommend
reading error messages, searching in the many help facilities Emacs
provides (C-h ?), and/or the Internet, and fixing the original
problem, instead of covering that up with more layers of obfuscation.
I have been using Emacs for a few years now, even wrote some packages,
but I still use the vanilla included package manager (just as a for
instance). Straight certainly is very popular (as are all these
"starter configs" like Doom, etc.) but I am not a fan of any of them,
and all for the same reasons.
Anyway, let's try to get you some early success, so that maybe you
stick with it long enough to realize its (immense) power.
My ".emacs" file had the following lines (now commented out) below
that worked fine
OLD
====
;;(add-to-list 'load-path
"/Users/jonathan/.emacs.d/lisp/beancount.el")
;;(require 'beancount)
;;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.beancount\\'" . beancount-mode))
That looks fine to me. Just add beancount.el to your load-path, and
then require it.
currently getting a read error when launching emacs.
What error are you getting? Try starting emacs from command line with
--debug-init option, like:
$ emacs --debug-init
In the meantime, I'll look at how to gather the list of accounts from
some other file(s).
Cheers,
TRS-80
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