Re: Re-naming accounts..

On 1/4/16 11:47 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Douglas Philips <douglas.phil...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I read through the manual (2.6.3, but the v3 manual is the same)... There is >> an example of using virtual accounts and automatic transactions to move &g

Re: Re-naming accounts..

On 1/4/16 2:15 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >> Martin Blais writes: > >> Stay away from virtual postings, they break the accounting equation. You >> never need to use them, period. > > I disagree with this statement. I've used them to good effect in the past. > There are times

Re: Re-naming accounts..

On 1/4/16 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:04:38PM -0800, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>>> Douglas Philips <douglas.phil...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in somethin

Re: Accounting Structure and Bookkeeping Correctly [serious]

On 5/7/15 12:15 PM, Kev Lau wrote: Hi Stefan, Thanks for your input. Yes I am trying to limit to 5 accounts. Expenses,Revenue,Assets,Liability and Equity. About positive and negative, I am still little confused so will go back to reading more on Debit and Credit systems. i think I need

Re: ledger-mode does not colorize effective date transactions as other entries

Comment from the peanut gallery... It seems a lot of what's going on here is rather depressing because Craig is writing a second ledger parser in emacs. I wonder if there might be a way to have one syntax definition that could be used to generate both the C++ and the emacs parsing code? I'm sure

Re: Same request at different moments in time

Actually, this makes a lot of sense. As Tufte says: To get more clarity, add detail. (*) If you only look at cash balances weekly or monthly, you'll miss a lot. Visualization is key. On 11/26/14 6:04 PM, Craig Earls wrote: I love ledger, but sometimes I think it encourages insanity! On Wed,

Re: Problem getting started with Ledger

you need two white space characters between the account name and amount. your sample looks like an accountname yhat ends in $500.00 -=Doug On 9/8/14 12:38 PM, Joseph Mornin wrote: Here's my ledger.dat: | 2014/09/29Employer Assets:Checking$500.00 Income:Salary | When I run ledger -f

Re: scheduling bi-weekly transactions in ledger-mode

On 7/10/14 9:21 AM, Martin Blais wrote: Forecasting is the only use case there that makes sense to me so far. Do you delete the forecast entries when they become realized? Are there any non-forecast use cases? In my case, the realized and the forecast are the same, as I have committed $n /

Re: ledger-mode and payee's names

On 7/9/14 4:15 PM, Alexandre Rademaker wrote: A probably foolish question that I am saving for a long time! I normally use C-c C-a to add transaction in the ledger-mode. I know that this basically call the command ledger add. One pitfall is the payee names with spaces. The regex used to match

Re: Wide Register Output

On 6/11/14 9:45 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Stefano Zacchiroli z...@upsilon.cc [2014-06-11 09:08]: $ echo $COLUMNS 134 ... I don't know why, but it seems $COLUMNS is not passed to ledger. std::getenv(COLUMNS) doesn't return anything whereas std::getenv(HOME) does. Also, this

Re: Wide Register Output

On 6/11/14 11:07 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Plain old ioctl can actually query terminal width without requiring any additional library --- example attached. I think it would be a much more useful default for --columns than getenv(COLUMNS), as the latter is almost always gonna be empty.

Re: Sub account balancing problem

even know which dozen after all these years... I was hoping for a ledgerific way of finding those transactions... Thanks, -=Doug On 5/29/14 5:05 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Douglas Philips douglas.phil...@gmail.com [2014-05-29 16:35]: I'm not sure if I agree with Craig as I do what Martin

Re: List of Payee transactions in 2.6

ledger reg -- Walmart (something similar works for me, and I'm still on 2.6 because it works and the hassle of building 3.0 for features I don't need isn't worth it. Get off my lawn! :-) ) -=Doug On 1/13/14 7:22 PM, Christopher Tomasulo wrote: Thanks for the reply John. I can't get it to

Re: Modeling joint expense with ledger

On 10/16/13 10:23 AM, David A. Harding wrote: You can create a transaction to record the debt in your personal ledger: 2013/10/02 Grocery Shopping Assets:Debit Card -$100.00 Expenses:Groceries$50.00 ; My Groceries Assets:Accounts Receivable:GF

Windows binary (Download) is broken?

Hey all, I've a friend who wants to use Ledger on windows, and I went to the download, for it: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/Goldcoast/documents and when I got logged in I got an error: Not Permitted You do not have permission to access the requested page. ??? At this point I'd

Re: Making a release of 3.0

On 5/23/13 4:29 AM, John Wiegley wrote: After this release is made, no further tarball releases will be created. All future updates will be delivered through Git, and merely a tag made to indicate a new stable version from time to time. Three Cheers for 3.0!!! Yay! Yay! Yay! Question: Have you

Re: Ledger Mode bugs from John Rakestraw

On 2/11/13 7:40 PM, Craig Earls wrote: So let me ask this: It appears most people want the individual posting to be acted upon, and marked pending. When, if ever do you want the balancing postings cleared? For example: 2013/09/11 Hobby Shop Expenses:Hobbies $100.00 Assets:Checking

Re: Looking for bug fixers/contributors

On 11/22/12 2:28 PM, Simon Michael wrote: Congratulations John! :-) Indeed! Soon you'll be John Simon Wiegley, as happens with all Haskellers after a time. :-) :-) I almost don't want to say this and make it real, but I have the feeling Or if there's a list of absolute showstopper