quick_ledger.md

Ledger-cli Quick Reference

Useful Links

• Main Sites: Main site, Downloads
• Ledger-cli Development: Github Repository, Website Development, Bugs
• Community: IRC (chat),
• Documentation: Manual or as PDF, Man page, Wikipedia
• Plug-ins: Vim, Emacs ledger-mode, Web Interface
• Alternate Implementations: Haskell and commodities, Lisp,
• People: John Wigley

Command Line Options

-f | The input file --strict | Require all accounts and metatags in transcations to have been declared with account and ? lines.

Accounting Glossary

Account|Anywhere where money can go. Credit|An amount. A positive number in Liability, Capital, and Income accounts. Debit|An amount. A positive number in Asset and Expense accounts.

Glossary

Emacs Ledger-mode

See Installation.

• Auto-complete payees, account names

• C-c C-a Prompt for date to add trascation in correct order

• C-c C-f Narrow reports to search item. Also, cancel previous Narrow command.

• C-c C-r C-o Reports

• C-c C-c Mark item as cleared

Quick Reports (with C-c C-o C-r)

• account
• bal
• payee
• reg

Report window: k = kill e = edit report parameters r = redo = scroll