Happy Friday, everyone! :)<p>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).<p>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 :)<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>I also thought it might be generally useful to others, so I released it publicly this morning.<p>I am very please to present to you:<p>beancount-txn-elisp<p>A library to read/parse and write/insert individual Beancount transactions, implemented in Emacs Lisp.<p><a href="https://sr.ht/~trs-80/beancount-txn-elisp" rel="nofollow">https://sr.ht/~trs-80/beancount-txn-elisp</a><p>Please try to break it. :) And let me know if you are successful.<p>Cheers,
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