future transactions (Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode)

2014-07-13 Thread Simon Michael
On 7/10/14 11:13 AM, Chris Shelton wrote: I have organized my ledger journal files by month, so that all transactions for a month are in the same file. I have a template ledger file that contains transactions that are recurring each month, with an XX for the month, and a typical or estimated

Re: future transactions (Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode)

2014-07-13 Thread Craig Earls
The ledger-schedule projection code is still very alpha and I haven't shared it. I hope to have the full syntax date descriptor code finished next weekend. On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com wrote: On 7/10/14 11:13 AM, Chris Shelton wrote: I have organized my

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-10 Thread Chris Shelton
I have organized my ledger journal files by month, so that all transactions for a month are in the same file. I have a template ledger file that contains transactions that are recurring each month, with an XX for the month, and a typical or estimated value for the transactions. When I need

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
I'd hate to see ledger-mode's support for scheduled transactions removed entirely in favor of cron -- not least because I tend not to have my computer running 24-7, so I'd be worried about missing transactions that fall due on a day when the computer's off (because I'm out of town or

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
The initial impetus was the difficulty in keeping GnuCash running happily on MacOS, despite the efforts of the fine folks at MacPorts. [1] In an interesting synchronicity, the most recent problem caused GnuCash to crash any time I tried to open the scheduled transaction editor. :-) This sort

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 10:00:47 PM UTC-4, Richard Cobbe wrote: The initial impetus was the difficulty in keeping GnuCash running happily on MacOS, despite the efforts of the fine folks at MacPorts. [1] In an interesting synchronicity, the most recent problem caused GnuCash to crash

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 5:34:32 PM UTC-4, Craig Earls wrote: I have been very slowly working on exactly that for a long time. I keep dithering on how to represent that kind of recurrence. So, since you are the first to ask, what would you like it to look like? I was think of something

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Erik Hetzner
Hi all, It seems like there are infinite ways to do this with ledger. Another solution would be to use yasnippet to generate the transactions. For example, you could use the following snippet: # contributor: Erik Hetzner e...@e6h.org # name: ledger test # key: test # expand-env:

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-09 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Richard Cobbe rco...@gmail.com writes: I'd hate to see ledger-mode's support for scheduled transactions removed entirely in favor of cron -- not least because I tend not to have my computer running 24-7, so I'd be worried about missing transactions that fall due on a day when the computer's

specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
(Please forgive me if this is a duplicate post -- I'm fairly new to Google groups, and my first attempt apparently went off into the ether rather than showing up on this list.) I'm trying to transition from GnuCash to ledger, and I'm looking for an equivalent to GnuCash's scheduled

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Craig Earls
I have been very slowly working on exactly that for a long time. I keep dithering on how to represent that kind of recurrence. So, since you are the first to ask, what would you like it to look like? I was think of something like: anchor date+ perodicity For example every o Third Monday starting

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: I have been very slowly working on exactly that for a long time. I keep dithering on how to represent that kind of recurrence. So, since you are the first to ask, what would you like it to look like? Cron has been around for ages and is just about as

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Craig Earls
cron, I never even thought of it. Brilliant. There is probably even an elisp parser already written than I can steal... On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com writes: I have been very slowly working on exactly that for a

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Blais
Not a big fan of cron, I think something textual might be better. Plus minutes don't matter and you can't do everything with cron (second tuesday of every month). You might also want to have a look at Wes McKinney's Pandas periodicity spec as well:

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Blais
Just curious... what are your reasons for switching away from GnuCash? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Richard Cobbe rco...@gmail.com wrote: (Please forgive me if this is a duplicate post -- I'm fairly new to Google groups, and my first attempt apparently went off into the ether rather than

Re: specifying transaction schedules in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Craig Earls
I use scheduled transaction to bridge the gap between automatic transaction and manually entered transactions. Probably 75% of my household transaction are repetitive excpet for the amount, which varies only slightly. The scheduler simply produces a lit of the upcoming transaction and I copy