Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Sharon Kimble writes: > >> Alan Schmitt writes: >> >> Thanks Alan for this. Ledger is something that I would dearly love to be >> using, but I can't find a good tutorial [by which I mean, it works in >> small steps which build on the previous steps]. I've looked at >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-04/msg00727.html >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/weaving-a-budget.html >> http://hledger.org/step-by-step >> >> The last one looked the most promising until I tried "ledger add" which >> replied - >> >> ledger add -f ~/.emacs.d/ledger/ledger.journal >> Error: Unrecognized command 'add' >> >> So now I'm stumped! > > That last link is a tutorial for hledger, which actually isn't the same > as normal ledger -- it's sort of "inspired by" ledger, but has different > commands, as you discovered. > > Documentation for ledger is a little spotty. I've found the official > docs to be better than anything else, though they still leave a little > to be desired: > > http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Ledger-Tutorial Thanks Erik, that looks understandable and comprehensive, so I'll try having a play with it over the weekend. And I reckon that I will be keeping my own instruction docs which might be able to be used to setup another tutorial later on, but lets try walking before running though! :) Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.4.1.0