Re: Ledger 3.3.2 change in commodity format sub-directive handling

uires an example of how the commodity > is to be used - you have to include the commodity because some people > (or regions) put it before the number and some people after. > > > > * Scott Carpenter [2023-06-04 06:00]: > > I see now that if I use, say: > &g

Re: Ledger 3.3.2 change in commodity format sub-directive handling

I see now that if I use, say: commodity xyz format 1,000.000 xyz Putting the commodity last, things behave the same as before with my output. On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:23:06 AM UTC-5 Scott Carpenter wrote: > After updating to 3.3.2, I was getting errors like this with

Ledger 3.3.2 change in commodity format sub-directive handling

After updating to 3.3.2, I was getting errors like this with my commodities: While parsing file , line 6: Error: commodity directive symbol abc and format directive symbol should be the same Note the two spaces between "symbol" and "should". Looks like there is no format directive symbol.

Re: starting afresh

I have most of my transactions in a single file, with entries from 1995-2023. It's approaching 5MB, and ledger handles it with no problems. On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 3:00:10 PM UTC-6 ARP wrote: > Hello, I started a new journal file Jan. 1 after using Ledger for 2 1/2 > years. I wanted to

Re: Scheduling transactions in ledger-mode

For future searchers of scheduling options, I'll put a pitch in for my ledgerbil scheduler.  https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil#--schedule On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 12:41:16 PM UTC-5 flyingk...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7:29:15 AM UTC-4, Alan Schmitt wrote:

Re: Need help just getting started

I've been using ledger for 7 years and still have to ask basic questions here from time to time. It's certainly worth the learning curve! On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 2:37:30 PM UTC-5, Oliver Hardy wrote: > > The fact that other people have actually figured out how to use this > program makes me

Re: Thank you, John & co.

+100 I love ledger! And in tinkering with my own ledger-related stuff in python. On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 1:10:00 PM UTC-6, Kent Spillner wrote: > > Howdy- > > I just wanted to take a minute to thank John and everyone else who > contributes to Ledger's development. I don't know

Re: Is ledger available in debian or ubuntu package manager?

o continue? [Y/n] Y (and so on...) On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 5:06:45 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > I'm trying on a couple of docker images and getting, for example with > Debian: > > root@4be055ba3998:/# apt-get install ledger > Reading package lists... Don

Is ledger available in debian or ubuntu package manager?

I'm trying on a couple of docker images and getting, for example with Debian: root@4be055ba3998:/# apt-get install ledger Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ledger Thank you! -- --- You received this

Re: any script to order transactions by date

Ledgerbil has a sorting feature: https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil The only change it will make to data is to normalize spacing between transactions, using one space. Ledgerbil doesn't know about a lot of ledger features but it should still be able to sort any file. Please let me know if

Re: Query/filter by amount?

Doh! Thanks, Martin! (I think I was almost going to try that and then didn't for some reason.) On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:29 PM Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Scott Carpenter [2019-11-16 13:25]: > > I know you can use --limit to specify greater than or less than an > amo

Query/filter by amount?

I know you can use --limit to specify greater than or less than an amount, e.g. --limit '(amount>0)' But that doesn't seem to work for equals. I think there must be a way. I looked cursorily through the docs, but lots of matches on the words I want to search on. Thank you! -- --- You

Re: Syntax Highlighting for VSCode and Sublime Text 3

s as they come!) > > --dave > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:16 AM Scott Carpenter > wrote: > >> I recently switched from Sublime Text to VSCode and created a plugin for >> the textmate language grammar for journal files (.ledger and .ldg). I'm >> still mainta

Re: Syntax Highlighting for VSCode and Sublime Text 3

it out: a version of the "mark" command that lets me > type an amount and, if there's a unique unreconciled transaction with that > amount, marks it. Would make running down a long credit card bill > easier... just type the numbers as they come!) > > --dave > > On W

Syntax Highlighting for VSCode and Sublime Text 3

I recently switched from Sublime Text to VSCode and created a plugin for the textmate language grammar for journal files (.ledger and .ldg). I'm still maintaining the sublime syntax file, too. All the things are here: https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil/tree/master/syntax The rules are

Re: Multiple metadata key/value pairs on single line?

That's my understanding as well: only one per line. But you can put tags on multiple lines that apply to a single posting, for example: 2019/05/16 someone expenses: something ; tag1: value1 ; tag2: value2 liability: some credit card $50 On

Re: Account balance without nested accounts

Beware of this gotcha with --flat and --depth, however: https://github.com/ledger/ledger/issues/1020 Because of that, I don't have any accounts where I apply amounts to both a parent and child account. On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 12:20:43 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Vladimir

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ledger 3.1.2

* Martin Michlmayr > * Michael Budde > * Mitchell Kember > * Naga Kiran > * Narsimham Chelluri > * Pascal Fleury > * Paulo Flabiano Smorigo > * Peter Feigl > * Peter Pickford > * Rémi Vanicat > * Scott Carpenter > * Sebastian Christ &g

Re: Backup and cloud-storage

I have a local git repo, with a script I run manually that makes sure the data is valid before committing. (The script also parses out payee names to put in the commit message, and runs ledgerbil's scheduler command to enter future transactions.) I keep the repo in a Veracrypt volume in

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

Ah, good to know. Thank you! On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 8:03:42 PM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Martin Michlmayr > [2019-01-05 00:01]: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2019-01-04 > 17:35]: > > > Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts togeth

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 18:35 Scott Carpenter > wrote: > >> Tried to glom a whole bunch of accounts together for a query, but appears >> there is a 256 character limit for the // grouping, e.g.: >> >> While parsing value expression: >> (cleared)&

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

def)$/)) Error: Invalid char 'a' (wanted '/') On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 8:11:50 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > Yep I had the longer version with --limit and account =~ > > Thanks for the tip! > > On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 7:30:08 PM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: &

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

Yep I had the longer version with --limit and account =~ Thanks for the tip! On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 7:30:08 PM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2019-01-02 15:11]: > > Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the > d

Re: Options for specifying account in a balance query

Sigh. No sooner posted than I had a better idea for finding it in the docs and looks like "6.2.1 Controlling the Accounts and Payees" has what I need. I had looked for --account but gave up too quickly. On Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 5:08:57 PM UTC-6, Scott Carpenter wrote:

Options for specifying account in a balance query

In my ledgerbil program I construct ledger queries for accounts and ran into an issue when the account ended with a % sign. I now realize a % sign in the account name probably isn't a great idea, but I'd like to handle if possible. An example! Let's say we have an account: assets: unwise%

Re: Balance assertions and assignments

) Unique payees:1664 Unique accounts: 297 Number of postings: 75621 (8.7 per day) On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 10:54:32 PM UTC-6, John Wiegley wrote: > > >>>>> "SC" == Scott Carpenter > writes: > > SC> Hi! Let's s

Re: Net worth over time

ify_if(format_date(date, "%Y-%m"), green if color and > date > today)) %(ansify_if(justify(scrub(display_total), 4 + > int(total_width), true, color), bold if should_bold))\n' > > On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:03:50 PM UTC-7, Scott Carpenter wrote: >> >>

Re: Net worth over time

Added this as a new option to ledgerbil's grid command: https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil#grid $ lbil grid --net-worth --transpose net worth $ 3,801.14 2016 $ 4,347.57 2017 $ 6,101.22 2018 On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:03:50 PM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: >

Re: Net worth over time

Would still be interested in ways to do this kind of thing, but I was already doing multiple calls in a similar way for expenses and payee reports so was fine to extend similarly for net worth. On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:03:50 PM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > I see some pr

Re: Schedule a transaction in ledger-mode for every N days

Thanks for trying out ledgerbil, Michael! This interval is now included with the scheduler. On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 12:21:21 PM UTC-5, Michael G wrote: > > I would like to be able to schedule a transaction every N days. I have a > few transactions that occur every 30 days so this

Net worth over time

I see some previous postings about this but hoping I can be forgiven for starting another. I'd like to be able to run a report for ne tworth over years or months. Normally let's say I have: ledger bal ^assets ^liabilities --depth 1 And: $ 8,270.61 assets $ -4,424.04

Re: Building a command line tool for automating entry of recurring transactions

The first thing I wrote when I switched to ledgerbil was a scheduler for recurring transactions: https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil#--schedule Ledgerbil can be tied to my own ledger usage in many ways, but the scheduler is one of the things that should be usable by any ledger user. :-) On

Re: problems for newby with --flat

I don't think of it as a dummy account as much as usage of parent vs child accounts. It is probably a bug that should be fixed, but yes it may be helpful to document that assigning funds to both a parent and child account will produce unexpected results with --flat. On Thursday, August 23,

Re: problems for newby with --flat

Yep. I've been bit by this, too. I have a check and a warning in my ledgerbil grid helper when ledger's total doesn't match my grid total. For a "newbie" you've done well to catch it and identify the issue. :-) On Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 4:17:49 AM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > *

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

Hi, Martin! I hope I've made much less of a mess and hopefully no mess at all with another PR: https://github.com/ledger/ledger/pull/1672 Please let me know if any concerns with this one! On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 5:21:05 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2

Re: Display Colours

Depends on your terminal color scheme, of course. I think this is pretty readable: It's not just ledger but other command

Syntax Highlighting in Sublime Text

I previously used tmLanguage files for syntax highlighting in Sublime and now have updated to use a newer syntax definition format. If anyone uses Sublime and is interested, more here: https://github.com/scarpent/ledgerbil/tree/master/syntax It's geared to my own usage in some ways but of

Re: Checking for Tag Value in Automated Transaction

I don't know if this should be any different, but I always query on tags with the % symbol, e.g. %BudgetType=Foo On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 12:56:13 AM UTC-5, Brandon Olivares wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an automated transaction where I'm wanting to split up income into > different

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

Argh! Sorry about that and than you, Martin! On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 5:21:05 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2018-07-08 15:10]: > > All right, please let me know if I've failed miserably: > > The PR includes some merges that shouldn't be there.

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

All right, please let me know if I've failed miserably: https://github.com/ledger/ledger/pull/1665 Thanks, Martin! On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 5:00:25 PM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > Thank you, Martin. I already have a fork so will learn how to update the > fork. (I previousl

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

Thank you, Martin. I already have a fork so will learn how to update the fork. (I previously updated, should be able to do again.) Let me dabble a bit and will see if I can manage. :-) On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 4:53:45 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2018-07

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

I'll accept tips but I should be able to figure this out. :-) On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 4:50:45 PM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > I'd be happy to learn. (I would take pride in having my name in the > contributor list!) > > On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 4:44:58 PM UTC-5, Martin

Re: Doc update for transaction state/status

I'd be happy to learn. (I would take pride in having my name in the contributor list!) On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 4:44:58 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2018-07-08 13:39]: > > I'd proudly make a PR for this if I understood forks. See: > > Do

Doc update for transaction state/status

I'd proudly make a PR for this if I understood forks. See: https://github.com/ledger/ledger/blob/next/doc/ledger3.texi#L2913 A transaction can have a ``state'': cleared, pending, or uncleared. The default is uncleared. To mark a transaction cleared, put an asterisk @samp{*} before the payee,

Re: information request

It may be helpful to create a sample file with a simple structure with which you can experiment, for example: expenses: fruit: apple: red: minnesota expenses: fruit: apple: red: wisconsin expenses: fruit: apple: yellow: fu expenses: fruit: apple: yellow: bar And then you can make some

Re: Multiple metadata values?

:11 PM UTC-5, Ajoeibin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Scott Carpenter > wrote: > > Re: formatting, posting in Chrome (and I'm guessing other browsers will > do > > the same), I get some formatting controls and use Courier New for ledger > > entries.

Re: Multiple metadata values?

that as a tag named 9764 with value 9764 and ignore the rest. (As far as I can tell.) On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 8:36:46 AM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > I suspect the answer to this is "no," but: can you have multiple metadata > values for a line item? > > E.g.

Re: Multiple metadata values?

; "2018/07/04","","something","a: cash","$","-50",""," top line\n next line" Which makes sense and I'm much happier to better understand ledger's comments now. On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 10:31:22 AM UTC-5, Scott Carpent

Re: Multiple metadata values?

case, so thanks again. :-) Scott On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 10:19:13 AM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2018-07-04 06:36]: > > I suspect the answer to this is "no," but: can you have multiple > metadata > > values for a

Re: Bug with --flat and --depth?

Ah, that looks like it. Thank you. On Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 9:03:45 AM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter > [2018-06-26 06:13]: > > With this data: > > I think this is the same as > https://github.com/ledger/ledger/issues/1020 > > -

Re: Bug with --flat and --depth?

t;,"$","50","","" "2018/06/26","","store","abc: def","$","100","","" "2018/06/26","","store","lmnop: qrs: tuv","$","-150

Bug with --flat and --depth?

With this data: 2018/06/26 store abc: def$100 lmnop: qrs: tuv bal --depth 2 results in: $100 abc: def $-100 lmnop: qrs 0 But bal --depth 2 --flat gives: $100 abc: def --

Re: Prevent totaling in --flat balance report?

ledger's grand total rather than my own, which will at least hint at the discrepancy.) On Monday, June 25, 2018 at 7:59:41 PM UTC-5, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:00:56 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Scott Carpenter > > > > > When I say prev

Prevent totaling in --flat balance report?

Supposing we have: 2018/06/25 store abc $50 abc: xyz$100 lmnop $-150 And we run *bal --flat abc* on this: $150 abc $100 abc: xyz $150 When I say prevent totaling, I'm not speaking

Re: Advanced reporting

Ah, perhaps you already know perfectly well about that site. I just went to look at the github repo for it and see your name there. :-) On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 6:44:08 AM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > There is lots of stuff here, that may provide ideas, too: >

Re: Advanced reporting

There is lots of stuff here, that may provide ideas, too: https://plaintextaccounting.org Someone kindly added my python tool there, ledgerbil, with which I crudely extend ledger for my own purposes. In some cases I wrap ledger, capturing its output and reformatting/calculating things, e.g a

Re: Register: use expressions to filter amounts?

Thanks, guys! Works like a charm. On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 12:08:05 PM UTC-5, Craig Earls wrote: > > —limit “(amount>200)” > > That’s a hint. And a clause limit the commodity might be necessary as well > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 07:28 Scott Carpenter > wrote:

Register: use expressions to filter amounts?

I'd like to be able to run a register query and specify greater than or less than comparisons for the amounts, e.g. show me all entries > $200. On a cursory look through the doc, I see this: report -J -l "Ua>={\$0.01}" reg ^assets ^liab But I'm not seeing a way to do it with a standard

Re: How close an account?

Nice! This is a good thing to know about. I see there is also "assert" which causes an error instead of a warning. Thanks. On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 1:01:53 PM UTC-5, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Aikido Guy [2018-05-07 08:15]: > > I tried searching this group for "close an

Re: ledger2beancount: ledger to beancount converter

I love this discussion! I think I sounded more sour on beancount than was warranted -- I'm also excited about the community around ledger and plain text accounting and that people are making other tools. And as someone who loves Python and is writing my own helpers for ledger, I should be

Re: ledger2beancount: ledger to beancount converter

Well I don't have any preference for which format of ledger lives on, be it C++ or Haskell or whatever, but I certainly hope that something will be maintained long term that supports the classic ledger file. I looked briefly at BeanCount but seem to recall being turned off by things like not

Re: Customizable grapical reporting tool for ledger

Looks nice! I've been thinking about my graphing options and will keep this in mind. Scott On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 11:23:40 AM UTC-5, Dániel Kántor wrote: > > Hello fellow ledger users! > > I'm working on a graphical reporting tool for ledger. I appreciate any > feedback, feature request

Re: Payee reporting

Nice -- thank you, Craig. On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 8:40:48 PM UTC-6, Craig Earls wrote: > > > ledger --group-by "(payee)" --subtotal reg Expenses --collapse > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 18:53 Scott Carpenter <scarp...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >

Payee reporting

Next up on my ledgerbil reporting list is reporting by payees, e.g. for expenses on a monthly or yearly basis, showing payee totals. I don't think there are a lot of built-in options for this but figured I should ask first before doing the work. I'm thinking I'll need to go through payees and

Re: Ledger tabular report

: > > On 20.02.18,22:04, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > My ledgerbil python program is somewhat limited to my own usage, but I'm > > pleased with this "grid" report: > > > > $ ledgerbil grid expenses > >

Ledger tabular report

My ledgerbil python program is somewhat limited to my own usage, but I'm pleased with this "grid" report: $ ledgerbil grid expenses 2017 2018 total expenses: car: gas $ 0.00 $

Re: --collapse behavior

wrote: > > On 19.02.18,06:47, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > Thank you, Jostein. I don't have a ~/.ledgerrc file but created an > empty > > one. Any suggested settings? > > > > Here is my ledgerrc settings: > > --file ~/ledger/jbfinans-2018.dat > --pag

Re: --collapse behavior

$57.40 $125.90 Thanks again. For my purposes this isn't really getting in the way but would be good to understand why this happens. (Especially if ledger is reporting incorrectly.) On Monday, February 19, 2018 at 8:01:09 AM UTC-6, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > > On 18.02.18,10:26,

--collapse behavior

Trying to use --collapse and it comes up empty on this data set: 2017/11/01 food and stuff e: food: groceries e: home: stuff: in $10 l: credit card: mega$-32.87 2017/12/05 food and stuff e: food: groceries a: checking out

Re: Command to find a commodity's price on a specified date?

Thank you, Martin! That works great. I'm mostly interested in year end prices so I can just use -p and I'll get at least one, and easy enough to grab the last date in the list. On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 9:45:54 AM UTC-6, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Scott Carpenter <scarp...@

Command to find a commodity's price on a specified date?

Is there a ledger command to find the price of a commodity on a date? It would look at both transaction files and prices db to find this. Thanks! -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Investment Report

Hi, Everyone! I've been curious if I'm missing something. I run an investment report for dollars with -V: $ 1,740.94 assets $ 1,390.94 401k $ 801.94 big co 500 idx $ 400.00 bonds idx $ 189.00 cash $ 150.00

Re: Tabular Reports?

s. Your journal is probably not hledger-compatible, > but the output of ledger print probably is. So something like this may work: > > ledger print | hledger -f- bal -Y > > > > On 11/25/17 5:27 AM, Scott Carpenter wrote: > >> Thanks, John. I've been planning to write

Re: Tabular Reports?

Thanks, John. I've been planning to write a helper for it but thought I should check first! On Nov 25, 2017 1:33 AM, "John Wiegley" <jwieg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> "SC" == Scott Carpenter <scarpen...@gmail.com> writes: SC> Is there a built-in

Re: pricedb api data source?

I used yahoo and then a google package but both had issues, so I modified my script to pull from finance.google.com. The json appeared to be broken so I used regex to extract price and date. On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 8:36:25 AM UTC-6, Jim Robinson wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone here

Tabular Reports?

Is there a built-in way to get a tabular report? Say I want to have categories and subcategories on the y-axis and years on the x, something like: 20152016 expenses: blah$ 500.00$ 250.00 blarg $ 450.00 $ 75.00 glarg $ 50.00$

Rounding problem in (presumed) unrelated accounts when using multiplication in an entry

Hi, Everyone! Going on 2.5 years using ledger and loving it. I ran into a strange problem that I worked out, but I'm wondering why this was an issue. I have things split into multiple files, e.g.: journal.ledger investments.ledger accounts.ldg etc... So I run ledger with several -f options. I

Re: Rounding problem in (presumed) unrelated accounts when using multiplication in an entry

I can reproduce it just with those two transactions: 2015/05/13 some place e: misc e: sundry ($2.539 * 1.8) l: credit card: big bank $-30.25 2014/12/19 investments-r-us a: abc: investment banana 5.7424 ba @ $24.38 a: abc:

Re: Rounding problem in (presumed) unrelated accounts when using multiplication in an entry

at 1:41:55 PM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Scott Carpenter scarp...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I can reproduce it just with those two transactions: 2015/05/13 some place e: misc e: sundry ($2.539 * 1.8) l: credit card

Ledger Atta[boy|girl]

I think there's a healthy enough community here and you don't really need encouragement from me, but I just wanted to say how much I'm loving ledger, and to thank John and others for your efforts. I've been meticulously tracking my finances for years, starting with MS Money in 1995, moving to

Re: Ledger and schools

I believe the Software Freedom Law Center uses Ledger: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/ On Sunday, August 3, 2014 10:06:55 AM UTC-5, Loris wrote: Sure. If not used in schools as a teaching tool, I'd like to know if ledger is used in companies for bookkeeping and report generation (statement

balance on top level items

Supposing you have things broken down like so: expenses ---} leisure ---} ---} games ---} ---} tomfoolery ---} misc ---} ---} shrubberies ---} ---} assorted And you wanted to run a balance report that just sums things up as: expenses ---} leisure ---} misc How might you do that? Thanks!

Re: balance on top level items

Yes! Exactly it. Thank you. I've been going through the manual a fair amount for things, and searching these forums, but very often things elude me for lack of familiarity or the proper framing of the question, so I hope you all don't mind some simple questions thrown out here. I'll happily

block comments

I've tried adding block comments to a file like this: !comment This is a block comment with multiple lines !end comment But it seems everything gets ignored after that when running bal or reg. This is the example as given in the manual -- am I doing it wrong? I'm using: Ledger

Re: Programs for reconciling data?

Thanks, Craig. It's nice to find this community of committed users. I don't have any grudge against emacs, but I just fell in with a vim crowd when I started using Unix. :-) I've been using Sublime to start this thing. I found the ledger syntax highlighter and with that and word-completion, it