John, methinks you have one foot firmly in both cultures if you are a humanities academic writing bash scripts to email yourself information about your finances!
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:56, John Rakestraw <[email protected]>wrote: > > I spend virtually all of my time in emacs, too -- even though I'm a > humanities academic and definitely *not* a programmer -- but I input > ledger entries using ledger.el and generate reports from there using > report queries stored in my .emacs file. Here's an example from my .emacs: > > ("checking future" "ledger -d 'd>=[this month]' -F '%10(date) %6(code) > %-.40(payee) %14(amount) %14(display_total)\n' reg checking") > > I also have bash scripts that generate daily emails with some budget > information and also a more complete budget report in a pdf. I'm intrigued > by TR's approach -- it hadn't occurred to me to put bash scripts in babel > src blocks. I'm playing around with that now. > > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
