Hi, If you are starting, I’d recommend you some other editor… I know that emacs is really good but for starting…
I would recommend you Visual Code https://code.visualstudio.com/. Is free and really good. Once installed you must look for an extension that helps you with the beancount files. There is one I’m using for a year that save lots of work: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Lencerf.beancount This extension is going to show you options from your Beancount file as you are writing. E.g.: If you start a line with 2, it’s going to propose you filling the complete date for today. Or, if you start next line by.. Expenses: is going to propose all your accounts starting with Expenses. If you start a line with Food, is going to propose (if you have the accounts) Expenses:Food, Expenses:Weekend:Food and so on. Hope helps. Regards. On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 12:47:52 PM UTC+2, Jad wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > Thank you for your prompt answer. > I'm on MacOS :) > I'll try downloading Emacs then :) > > Thank you! > > Le lun. 25 mai 2020 à 12:27, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected] > <javascript:>> a écrit : > >> * Jad <[email protected] <javascript:>> [2020-05-25 03:21]: >> > I've read through the documentation but I could have missed >> > something. When going for the tutorial, I generated a >> > example.beancount file in my Terminal. >> > >> > Nevertheless, I can't open example.beancount as the error message >> > says "No application is set to open beancount file" >> >> A beancount file is just a plain text file. >> >> It sounds like you're on Windows? >> >> You can use any editor to edit beancount files. For some editors >> (like Emacs and vim, but they are more popular on Linux and macOS), >> there are plugins for beancount which do stuff like syntax >> highlighting or tab completion for account names. I'm not sure if >> this is available for a common editor on Windows. (Although Emacs and >> vim probably work there.) >> >> > Btw, I have no prior experiance with Python. Should I take a Python >> > class first ? >> >> You don't need to know Python to use beancount. If you want to >> enhance beancount, for example by writing bank importers or plugins, >> then you'd need Python. >> >> -- >> Martin Michlmayr >> https://www.cyrius.com/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/6zWttkjJAeo/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20200525102653.GN27668%40jirafa.cyrius.com >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f2a9589f-e461-43b7-9759-82458a0156f6%40googlegroups.com.
