On Sep 14, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:
> I really have no idea how many people use ledger-mode. I estimate 3. I am a very heavy user of it! Seriously, ledger with ledger-mode is a major improvement to my life. Thanks :D > Is there any interest in ledger-mode handling other backends like > hledger or bean count. I admit I have not used anything other than > ledger3. Nope, I also only use ledger3. Current biggest wish: better handling of expression amounts (http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Expression-amounts). The biggest problem that ledger solved for me was the handling of bill splits (as I have four roommates, and we all pay various parts of the various bills). I used to have a table to track of it, and it just didn't work; lo and behold, double-entry bookkeeping solved all my problems. However, currently in ledger-mode, if I have a bill of say $35.52, and I want to pay half to expenses and half to a receivable account, I have to split it manually to $17.76 for each transaction. I would *love* to use an expression amount and say ($35.52 / 2) for each. Ledger handles this, and your recent updates to ledger-mode made it recognize the expression amounts and highlight them properly, but ledger-mode-clean-buffer does not align the amounts for me (like it does with plain amounts and commodities, right-align to the final digit of the left-most amount). I'm not sure where the alignment should take place, perhaps also the final-digit of the left-most amount? (This all extends to auto-indent on tab and ledger-post-align-xact as well.) Also, elided balance assertions are recognized (highlighted) now, but don't auto-align either (the documentation aligns them as if they were non-elided, and the left-amount was followed by space-equal-space right-amount, so I manually do the same). The other thing is that reports and other results returned by ledger aren't highlighted in the Emacs buffer like they are if run in a terminal. Not sure what could be done about this though. Thanks for everything! Andrew P.S. Now you have me more interested in the different commands ledger-mode provides... I think I found a bug with ledger-navigate-prev-xact, as it doesn't work for me, but ledger-navigate-next-xact-or-directive does. P.P.S C-c C-b is awesome! Brings up calc. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
