Re: Orgmode for budgeting/expense recording

[Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:25:21PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:08:07 -0500,
> Russell Adams wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:55:22AM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > > what ledger is missing, in the context of emacs, is an easy way to see
> > > the actual output of the ledger command (e.g. bal or reg) while
> > > looking at the ledger file.
> > 
> > I use the watch command in another window, its a very useful
> > combination.
> > 
> > ie: watch ledger -sEV bal
> 
> Yes, that would work although I don't need to watch my ledger that
> often!  Maybe if I were into day trading... but that requires actual
> funds, not to mention a strong constitution these days ;-)

Often? Only while matching changes or reconciling. My WM makes it easy
to swap around windows so I'll let one or two reports (bal & rec)
running split screen and emacs full screen on another desktop.

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