Ledger Emacs

Emacs ledger-mode with hledger

Hledger is a text based accounting tool. It’s very similar to Ledger (hence the name).

Emacs has great ledger-mode but if you use Hledger you’ll definitely get some issues.

TLDR

here is my use-package block where most of the issues are solved

(use-package ledger-mode
  :straight t ;; or :ensure t
  :init
  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(h?ledger\\|journal\\|j\\)$" . ledger-mode))
  (setq ledger-binary-path "path-to-fix-hledger-script.see-below")
  (setq ledger-mode-should-check-version nil)
  (setq ledger-report-links-in-register nil)
  (setq ledger-report-auto-width nil)
  (setq ledger-report-native-highlighting-arguments '("--color=always"))
  (setq ledger-highlight-xact-under-point nil)
  (setq ledger-default-date-format ledger-iso-date-format))

Add new transactions issue. xact.

There an error appears when you try to add a new transaction that says xact isn’t available. xact is a tool that comes with ledger but it doesn’t exists in hledger package.