Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Blais
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com wrote: On 7/7/14 9:55 PM, Erik Hetzner wrote: So what is the series of commands that are used to create a journal in ???? hledger has an add command which can get you started without needing a journal file or editor.

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Craig Earls
Dee, Please don't take offense. I am happy to help. But you caught me on a particularly bad day. I have put a huge amount of time into the documentation and the emacs code to support editing ledger files and I always looking for ways to improve it. That said, for any tool there is a minimum

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread o1bigtenor
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Craig Earls ender...@gmail.com wrote: Dee, Please don't take offense. I am happy to help. But you caught me on a particularly bad day. I have put a huge amount of time into the documentation and the emacs code to support editing ledger files and I always

Re: Rounding in ledger

2014-07-08 Thread tripun goel
Fixed another issue , here is the link to the new patch https://gitorious.org/ledger/npo-ledger-cli/raw/45b8d981c26a009facdd502504f94dc7af216d93:rounding/final_new_precision.patch Regards Tripun Goel On Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:24:58 UTC+5:30, tripun goel wrote: Attached a new patch. The link

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Blais
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM, o1bigtenor o1bigte...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Martin Blais bl...@furius.ca wrote: snip I'm not trying to be nasty... just realistic. The whole point of creating a language is so that we don't have to have a UI. My advice to the

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Adams
In my experience ledger users should have the following skillset prior to beginning with Ledger. - Moderate to high skill with text file creation, management, and organization as used a command line compilation and programming environments - Basic version control knowledge - Advanced

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Craig Earls
Tim, I will put that in the documentation. Craig. On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: In my experience ledger users should have the following skillset prior to beginning with Ledger. - Moderate to high skill with text file creation, management, and

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread larry
On 2014-07-08 12:10, o1bigtenor wrote: That it is not necessary to indicate that one starts with a basic EMPTY text file is a huge hole in the documentation. There is lots of detail for after that but NOTHING on that point. Yes it seems redundant now that I KNOW what is required it is quite

Re: Initial setup

2014-07-08 Thread Martin Blais
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: In my experience ledger users should have the following skillset prior to beginning with Ledger. - Moderate to high skill with text file creation, management, and organization as used a command line

Re: Building on FreeBSD 10.0

2014-07-08 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 05.07.14,05:20, y2s1982 . wrote: Thank you everyone for taking a stab at this problem. Pity it wasn't resolved :( I've tried to make acprep update to at least begin compiling and following changes helped me get there, though I still ran into the same problem while compiling output.cc as

scheduling bi-weekly transactions in ledger-mode

2014-07-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
I'm in the process of transitioning from Gnucash to Ledger (as keeping Gnucash working consistently on MacOS is challenging, despite the best efforts of the MacPorts folks). I will miss Gnucash's support for scheduled transactions, though, if I can't figure out a good way to do this in Ledger.

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