On Tue, Oct 02 2012, Russell Adams wrote: >> > I was too using a personal perl script, doing the mapping from a table. But >> > I tried the 'i' of icsv2ledger, and felt in love with this 'i'. On >> > contrary, >> > rubycsv and CSV2ledger does not (yet?) implement this 'interactiveness'. >> > Also CSV2ledger is not unicode compliant, and I am not living in an ASCII >> > world :-). >> >> It was the interactiveness that was the key feature for me as well. I >> came from using MS Money, and so was used to it automatically >> suggesting payees and accounts from the string supplied by the bank, >> so I wanted something similar when I processed my download from the >> bank. > > Interactive sounds like a nice feature! I hadn't tried that. > > Normally I import hundreds of records... So my focus isn't on one at a > time data entry, I want bulk and standardized records. > > I'm keen on John's new emacs mode that's letting me query my files for > items to clear / update (ie: my queue in my workflow). I can now see > one line per transaction, and hit enter on them to jump to the right > file.
I realized, with no small embarrassment, that I don't really need an external tool, since I use emacs for maintaining my ledger files, and for everything else. In the course of writing some elisp functions to consume bank records I noticed the new version of ledger-mode, and am considering using it -- do you have any pointers or things to watch out for? I noticed strings in there that still point to directories on John's computer :) E
