I just found this:

https://awesome-beancount.com/#editor-support


* Jad Benyahia <[email protected]> [2020-05-25 12:47]:
> 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]> a écrit :
> 
> > * Jad <[email protected]> [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.
> >
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