>> I finally got around to merging the patches I used to use with the old
>> (minor-mode) version of beancount.el into the new version.
> Thank you very much for the patch. Do you mind if I split it in a few
> commits and I submit it with a few tweaks and your attribution as a
> merge request on bitbucket, so that Martin can easily merge it?
That would be very sweet.
>> - New var `beancount-electricity` to control behavior of RET.
>> When non-nil, RET at the end of a leg adds the currency if missing (or
>> tries to anyway: I think it's done in a too naive way which doesn't
>> account for the many ways to specify the amount).
> I think this should be called `beancount-electric-currency` instead.
When I introduced it I intended for it to do more:
- do a bit of auto-indentation (that was when beancount-mode didn't
have a line-indent-function)
- re-align the amount (again, it's now done by electric-indent-mode)
- auto-add the next account if it's always been the same so far (never
implemented)
But, yes, nowadays it's only the currency. I don't have any strong
opinion on the name of the config var.
> Can you be more specific about how this may not work for more complex
> ways of specifying the amount?
Not really: I only ever use simple amounts (no @ things and whatnot) so
I not only haven't tested with anything more complex but I can't
remember what those more complex cases can look like anyway.
Oh I can give you one concrete case I bumped into and never fixed:
Asset:Account (0.8 * 100) RET
will not insert the currency because the code doesn't recognize "(0.8 *
100)" as an amount.
>> - Add a M-RET binding that inserts the date part of a new transaction.
> I don't enter many transactions manually, but this addition seems
> reasonable.
Yeah, it's not super useful, admittedly.
Stefano's suggestion to use the date of the previous transaction might
be a good alternative. I don't have strong feelings about it
should do. I find the key-binding intuitive and the idea of the
functionality appealing, although the practice of it is
rather underwhelming.
Thank you for your rewrite into a major mode: it fixed most of the
annoyances I encountered in the old mode.
Stefan
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