Re: How to Track Customer Expenses ? Should use Invoice: tags?

2015-05-20 Thread kinleyd
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 8:35:09 PM UTC+6, Craig Earls wrote: Leafpad!?! You're an animal! :) lol. I had to look up Leafpad to get the context. Which is why I was curious as to why Dee doesn't use Emacs and ledger-mode - that combines minimalistic text editor (if not the simple

Re: How to Track Customer Expenses ? Should use Invoice: tags?

2015-05-20 Thread Kinley Dorji
No religious war from this side, I assure you. To each his/her own is what I live by. :) Good explanation on why you prefer Leafpad over Emacs - Emacs does have quite a curve on a lot of fronts. Re ledger-mode: there's quite a bit in there from an efficiency point of view, but of course, it does

Re: How to Track Customer Expenses ? Should use Invoice: tags?

2015-05-20 Thread o1bigtenor
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:55 AM, kinleyd kinl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 8:35:09 PM UTC+6, Craig Earls wrote: Leafpad!?! You're an animal! :) lol. I had to look up Leafpad to get the context. Which is why I was curious as to why Dee doesn't use Emacs and

monthly reports that exclude regular payments like rent, electricity bill, ...

2015-05-20 Thread Max Linke
Hi I would like to create a special monthly report that helps me track my spending. I would like to see how much money I spend each month minus regularly occurring costs (rent, grocery budget, electricity, ...) . I would like to decide which transaction was regular based on meta-data (I have

Re: monthly reports that exclude regular payments like rent, electricity bill, ...

2015-05-20 Thread John Wiegley
Max Linke max.link...@gmail.com writes: I would like to create a special monthly report that helps me track my spending. I would like to see how much money I spend each month minus regularly occurring costs (rent, grocery budget, electricity, ...) . I would like to decide which transaction

Re: monthly reports that exclude regular payments like rent, electricity bill, ...

2015-05-20 Thread Jim Robinson
The --budget feature was mentioned as one option, what I ended up doing for myself was to just make a dip simple script to call register with three different subgroups of expenses. It lets me break down my expenses into taxes, into fixed expenses (e.g., rent, utilities, and insurance), and into

Making editing Ledger files with Vim a breeze

2015-05-20 Thread Lifepillar
Hello, after a long training period (!), I am finally comfortable enough with Vim to switch from my current Ledger text editor (TextMate). Given the wonderful auto-completion feature of the vim-plugin, my productivity has increased significantly (TextMate has auto-completion, too, but not as