Oops, that should be

account Expenses:Car:Petrol
    alias petrol



On Monday, December 22, 2014 10:35:32 AM UTC+1, guivho wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Regardless of the editor used, you could benefit from the alias feature 
> provided by ledger.
>
> After defining the Expenses:Car:Petrol in the beginning of the file as 
> follows
>
>
> Expenses:Car:Petrol
>>     alias petrol
>>
>
> you only have to type petrol as account when posting. 
>
> Obviously if your editor supports completion, this provides even more 
> benefit.
>
> HTH,
>
> Guido
>
> On Sunday, December 21, 2014 7:34:47 AM UTC+1, Kev Lau wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Currently I am using nano to make my ledger entries and it takes a very 
>> long time as I have to write the full form for everything 
>> (Expenses:Car:Petrol) etc and get very tired making entries.
>>
>> Is there something we can do to make entries on nano 
>> faster(predictive-text)? I heard emac can take care of this. Can someone 
>> confirm on this and provide a page dedicated to emac and ledger(perhaps 
>> showing tutorials for newbies?)
>>
>> Appreciate feedback for this.
>> Regards
>> Kevin
>>
>

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