On 21/02/2022 23:16, Nathan Neff wrote:
There's a command M-x beancount-query - I thought that the program would allow interactive queries or something from within emacs.
The beanconunt-query command allows to run bean-query against the file backing the current buffer. In a way it does exactly what you expect.
Anyway, I'm not familiar with "compile" mode in Emacs but I suspect it allows a compiler backend to run on a given file, and then show errors etc (similar to an IDE).
compilation-mode is the mode used by Emacs to display compilation output and offers facilities to jump to errors and warnings, to jump to the file locations mentioned in those, and others.
It is used by the beancount-query command to report its output.
Am I correct that this is the purpose of the emacs beancount-query command?
I don't understand what you mean by "this". In the sentence before you write about compilation, but Beancount does not have the concept of compiling a ledger into something. Thus I don't know what the answer to this question may be.
If so, it seems that the command doesn't "re-compile" automatically if the underlying file is changed.
No, it does not, regardless of what you mean by "re-compile". Watching the file for changes to trigger recompilation or execution of external tools is very likely to just cause to spin up a lot of process that are destined to fail because the input files are incomplete or not in a coherent state, thus this is generally a feature that in not implemented in any Emacs mode. beancount-mode adheres to this philosophy.
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