On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:49 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I just started with Beancount and find it might just be the right tool for
> me. Thanks for a great software.
>
> While I am editing each transaction, I find payee is a very useful info
> especial in fava interface, where you can click payee to see all the linked
> transactions. To solve the issue of inconsistent payee names from various
> csv imports, I decided to just manually input the payee and leave the other
> transaction info from the import as narration.
>
> My question is, is there a Emacs autocomplete for payee input, similar to
> the account autocompletion? This will save me from typing similar things
> over and over, and avoid typos. I am new to Emacs, as well. It could be a
> wrestle for me to create a new minor mode for this. Thanks for your help.
>

There isn't as far as I know.
Another approach could be to just tolerate the inconsistent input and write
a plugin that cleans up the payees (processes the stream of transactions
and fixes it up based on rules/regexps). Here, something like this:
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/default/beancount/plugins/fix_payees.py



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