Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-22 Thread guivho
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-22 Thread guivho
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Chris Leyon
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread thierry
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread o1bigtenor
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.

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Craig Earls
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,

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Simon Michael
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Martin Blais
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Craig Earls
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

Re: How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-21 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
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

How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-20 Thread Kev Lau
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

How to make faster posts on ledger

2014-12-20 Thread Alexis H
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 -- ---