On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 3:41:17 PM UTC-5, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> >> I'm a vim user, but figured going with beancount is as good a reason as >> any to try emacs out (evil-mode though). >> > > Congratulations! > Many thanks to you (and the fava folk!), I would not have made the leap with just pure ledger (very much a pythonista). *snip of a lot of structural stuff, thanks for the explanation, but I've basically gleaned that from looking at your previous mails =)* > These are arbitrary, but in chronological order, and I tend to create a > new section anytime I travel, so it comes with an update in the "location" > event that can report on days vs. location. > > Finally, I have a long section where I put all price updates, typically > update every couple of weeks (but I'm not so good about regular entries > yet, I'd like to automate that at some point): > > * Prices > ... > > This I haven't looked into (as I hardly travel given the weakness of my currency, and being fairly young I'm not yet into equities of any nature (the local exchange is very much rigged). > > To go somewhere, I currently open my document with all sections folded, > then I use i-search to find the right heading, e.g., "C-s * Ame" to get to > the American Express section. Then I press C-i to open up that section and > then C-n to go to the bottom. > Thanks this sounds similar to what Daniel Clemente mentioned in his other reply. For my in evil-mode it'd just be a 'g-j' once I'm on the right heading, instead of C-n. Already trying to practice doing this but it does seem fairly convoluted in thought (instead of going directly I'm going to the NEXT section and then rewinding by 2-3 lines) > > I use registers intensely in order to go back and forth between different > parts of my file. > Registers? Thanks, will read up on those. Coming from vim I know about marks, but these seem (like most emacs things I've seen so far) both more powerful and more arcane... -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGQ70eu3KYvw9%3DjZUmRvBBBzSnLROpvZCqN-r66%3DfCpA%3Du1osQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
