Adding ledger-hledger-mode

[DamienCassou]

Hi,

in hledger chat on matrix, I see several people using ledger-mode with hledger. I also do. There is a completely different hledger-mode but some people prefer ledger-mode anyway.

The ledger-mode package doesn't perfectly work with hledger. For example, it is not possible to type a payee in `ledger-add-transaction' because the command calls ledger with some options that are not
available in hledger. Another limitation is that clicking on a transaction in a report doesn't show the transaction in the journal file. There are more little problems like this.

I was wondering if a ledger-hledger-mode would be appropriate inside your repository. It would be a minor mode that configures different things so ledger-mode works great with hledger. I guess some
refactorings of existing code will be necessary as well to avoid hacking ugly workarounds in ledger-hledegr-mode.

What do you think?

[enderw88]

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On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 05:22 Damien Cassou ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, in hledger chat on matrix, I see several people using ledger-mode with hledger <https://hledger.org/>. I also do. There is a completely different hledger-mode <https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode> but some people prefer ledger-mode anyway. The ledger-mode package doesn't perfectly work with hledger. For example, it is not possible to type a payee in `ledger-add-transaction' because the command calls ledger with some options that are not available in hledger. Another limitation is that clicking on a transaction in a report doesn't show the transaction in the journal file. There are more little problems like this. I was wondering if a ledger-hledger-mode would be appropriate inside your repository. It would be a minor mode that configures different things so ledger-mode works great with hledger. I guess some refactorings of existing code will be necessary as well to avoid hacking ugly workarounds in ledger-hledegr-mode. What do you think? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#398>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGWWLBTKJQREC6MHEFQDL3YR54QNAVCNFSM6AAAAABCY2GIECVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGEYTOMBXGMYTINY> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[josephmturner]

it is not possible to type a payee in `ledger-add-transaction' because the command calls ledger with some options that are not available in hledger.

Does #392 address this concern at all? (I also use hledger with ledger-mode)

No, it does not.

[jladdjr]

This year I switched from ledger to hledger and I've wondered about this same question off-and-on.

• hledger-mode is missing features that are really helpful in ledger-mode (ability to reconcile, for example, unless I've totally overlooked the feature)
• ledger-mode currently pairs fairly well with hledger, but are there definitely some areas where the two aren't compatible (running into errors with C-c C-a for adding a transaction is the one I run into the most)

Love the idea of somehow making ledger-mode compatible with multiple versions of ledger. I'm still developing a working understanding of elisp and emacs packages in general, but the idea of using a minor mode sounds interesting. I'm not exactly sure what it would look like, but it seems like there should be a way to create adapters to support different ledger behavior.