Show HN: A Beancount txn parser/writer, implemented in Emacs Lisp
sr.htHappy Friday, everyone! :)
I started getting into so called "plain text accounting"[0] some years ago, and after having a look around, settled on Beancount (as opposed to Ledger or others).
It took me a few tries to get off the ground, but eventually I did. And now I am finally realizing one of my life-long goals of getting my personal books (accounting) in order. FeelsGoodMan.jpg :)
Along the way, I cobbled together various hacky scripts to manipulate my text based transactions (txns) in Beancount. I am a big Emacs user and I prefer to work in Emacs Lisp so that was what I used.
I went on, piling hack upon hack the last few years, re-implementing things in different ways over and over, just to quickly accomplish whatever I needed at the time to do my bookkeeping.
Recently I realized that I needed to build even more things on top of all these hacks, until for some reason I experienced a moment of clarity, and decided I should refactor all these hacks into a proper library.
I also thought it might be generally useful to others, so I released it publicly this morning.
I am very please to present to you:
beancount-txn-elisp
A library to read/parse and write/insert individual Beancount transactions, implemented in Emacs Lisp.
https://sr.ht/~trs-80/beancount-txn-elisp
Please try to break it. :) And let me know if you are successful.
Cheers, TRS-80
[0] https://plaintextaccounting.org
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