Trying to understand ledger-mode

2020-07-27 Thread Oliver Hardy
Following the ledger-mode docs, in emacs I do C-c C-a. This brings up a calendar with today's date highlighted. I'm then instructed to type a close match to the payee. Hitting enter then enters the date in my ~/journal.ledger file and that's it. No further details even though the payee I'm enter

Re: Trying to understand ledger-mode

2020-07-27 Thread Ghanashyam Prabhu
On my Emacs setup, I have company mode enabled and typing a part of the Payee automatically completes the Payee entry. I tried disabling Company mode and typing in part of the Payee name, this time I have to Tab to initiate completion. Tabbing further then cycles through different existing Payees.

Re: Trying to understand ledger-mode

2020-07-28 Thread Oliver Hardy
I thank you for that but it still doesn't work. Company mode enabled, company mode disabled. Tab, no tab. Partial payee name, complete payee name. All I ever get is today's date with C-c C-a. In addition to being new to ledger I'm also new to emacs so I'm sure I'm making some simple beginner mis

Re: Trying to understand ledger-mode

2020-07-28 Thread Ghanashyam Prabhu
I tried using a new init.el file on my Emacs so that I start with a fresh initialization file without any of my personal customization. I used the below contents in my init.el. ;; use init file as the one provided under --load-init > (setq user-init-file (or load-file-name (buffer-file-name))) > (

Re: Trying to understand ledger-mode

2020-07-28 Thread Oliver Hardy
I thinK I've finally gotten it to work. I deleted emacs off my laptop as well as anything having to do with emacs. Shut everything down, unplugged and walked away for a few hours. Came back, restarted, reinstalled emacs, ledger-mode and the rest. Following your examples step by step and then edi