Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
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 -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
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 -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
Emacs's ledger-mode features tab completion of account names which speeds up journal entry considerably. Another feature I use is predefined text in registers. This is a general capability of Emacs, not specific to ledger-mode. To define a string in register d related to Dining, I use (set-register ?d Expenses:Dining $) When I'm editing my journal, I can press `C-x r i d' and then quickly enter an amount on a nicely formatted line. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Alexis H surryh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin, for starters have a look at the xact Ledger command http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#xact Since I have no knowledge about the Ledger Emacs integration, I can only point to the documentation http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Emacs-org-Mode Cheers, Alexis -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
Emacs's ledger-mode features tab completion of account names which speeds up journal entry considerably. In Emacs, type 4 spaces from beginning of line, then characters Ex, then TAB. This will complete up to expenses:. Then type character 'C', then TAB; This will complete up to Expenses:Car:. If TAB does not complete at the first hit, the second hit on TAB will show possible completion values. Also, please have a look to keyboard shortcut C-c TAB, and C-c C-a describes in http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger-mode.html#Quick-Add Since I have no knowledge about the Ledger Emacs integration, I can only point to the documentation http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Emacs-org-Mode The above link is about how to use Org-mode features in with ledger files. The correct link for an Emacs mode dedicated to ledger is http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger-mode.html Thierry -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
Good Morning! On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Kev Lau superinterstel...@gmail.com 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?) I will say that I am a totally non-programmer for starters. Have learned some of the plethora of things needed to run vi. Learning another text editor didn't seem like a wonderful idea to me especially when I had (and still have) a mountain of documents to go through for my ledger. So I use one of the gui-ized (if that's a word) text editors. I copy and paste lots and things go quite quickly. Its also very easy - - did I mention it is real easy. Its not elegant but it works. (I have over 3000 lines for 8 months worth of information.) Dee -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
Ledger-mode only uses ledger xact in one very specific case. Tab completion of payees, accounts, tags and meta-data is done within emacs. On Sunday, December 21, 2014, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Kev Lau superinterstel...@gmail.com javascript:; writes: 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 As Alexis mentioned, ledger comes with an xact command that makes it very easy to create new entries. The way Emacs takes care of this is just calling out to xact. If you could incorporate that into nano somehow, you'd be taken care of. I don't know if nano can call shell commands...? Eric -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com javascript:;. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
On 12/20/14 10:34 PM, Kev Lau wrote: 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?) Hi Kevin, as others have mentioned, tab-completion is a big help in the emacs ledger-mode; other editors may have this too. Several editors have getting-started pages on the ledger wiki. Also it's easier when you get fast at find-copy-paste-adjust of previous similar entries. You may also like to try hledger add (http://hledger.org/step-by-step.html#record-a-transaction-with-hledger-add) or hledger web (http://demo.hledger.org/journal?add=1) which offer alternate ways to enter *ledger data. Finally, if you're mainly entering bank data, you could look into converting it from CSV instead of typing it. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
I have it setup with ido-completing-read which allows you to type any subset of characters an account name (in order). It makes it really super easy to type account names, while being generally sloppy with typing. Something worth looking into. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Chris Leyon cle...@gmail.com wrote: Emacs's ledger-mode features tab completion of account names which speeds up journal entry considerably. Another feature I use is predefined text in registers. This is a general capability of Emacs, not specific to ledger-mode. To define a string in register d related to Dining, I use (set-register ?d Expenses:Dining $) When I'm editing my journal, I can press `C-x r i d' and then quickly enter an amount on a nicely formatted line. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Alexis H surryh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin, for starters have a look at the xact Ledger command http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#xact Since I have no knowledge about the Ledger Emacs integration, I can only point to the documentation http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Emacs-org-Mode Cheers, Alexis -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
I think the real key here is using an editor slightly more capable than nano. emacs or vi. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Martin Blais bl...@furius.ca wrote: I have it setup with ido-completing-read which allows you to type any subset of characters an account name (in order). It makes it really super easy to type account names, while being generally sloppy with typing. Something worth looking into. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Chris Leyon cle...@gmail.com wrote: Emacs's ledger-mode features tab completion of account names which speeds up journal entry considerably. Another feature I use is predefined text in registers. This is a general capability of Emacs, not specific to ledger-mode. To define a string in register d related to Dining, I use (set-register ?d Expenses:Dining $) When I'm editing my journal, I can press `C-x r i d' and then quickly enter an amount on a nicely formatted line. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Alexis H surryh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin, for starters have a look at the xact Ledger command http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#xact Since I have no knowledge about the Ledger Emacs integration, I can only point to the documentation http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Emacs-org-Mode Cheers, Alexis -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How to make faster posts on ledger
Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: Ledger-mode only uses ledger xact in one very specific case. Tab completion of payees, accounts, tags and meta-data is done within emacs. Oh sure -- that's what I meant. What I was misunderstanding was what the OP was looking for, I think... On Sunday, December 21, 2014, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Kev Lau superinterstel...@gmail.com writes: 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 As Alexis mentioned, ledger comes with an xact command that makes it very easy to create new entries. The way Emacs takes care of this is just calling out to xact. If you could incorporate that into nano somehow, you'd be taken care of. I don't know if nano can call shell commands...? Eric -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
How to make faster posts on ledger
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 -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
How to make faster posts on ledger
Hi Kevin, for starters have a look at the xact Ledger command http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#xact Since I have no knowledge about the Ledger Emacs integration, I can only point to the documentation http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Emacs-org-Mode Cheers, Alexis -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
