iadd will need to wait
The plan for this week was to get hledger-iadd to work. What is hledger-iadd? Also called iadd, it’s an alternative to the hledger add command to interactively enter transactions.
Getting narrow minded in Emacs
Last week I closed out 2023, creating a separate file for my 2024 transactions. In spite of having 4 months of data in my new file, there was one.
(Almost) everything you wanted to know about hledger transactions
Last week’s posting had resources for learning the basic parts of an hledger transaction. The motivation was that if you use hledger, it helps to have a good grasp.
Making changes with and without sed
As mentioned last week, I wanted to change my account names to lowercase. For example, instead of my current: Expenses:Groceries I wished to have: expenses:groceries I also had waxed.
Why use hledger?
One worthwhile reason to use hledger is to improve your life and the lives of those around you. How does that work? I created the diagram below, inspired by.
Moving forward by going backward
When I use hledger, I am almost always on the command line. So, I find it useful to know ways to be more efficient on the command line. For.