Thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion surely sounds a lot more 
promising for me. I am no programmer, but I am much more comfortable with 
Python than Emacs script. I will look into it. Thanks for the awesome 
program.


On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 2:04:28 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:49 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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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>> W.E.
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