Can I keep budget using Emacs?

Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Water Lin]

Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?

I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
there some mode like Excel in emacs?

Thanks

Water Lin

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Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Paul H.]

On 30 dec, 11:33, Water Lin <Water...@ymail.invalid> wrote:
> Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?
>
> I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
> there some mode like Excel in emacs?

Org mode <http://orgmode.org>has some spreadsheet functionality. I
don't know whether it is sufficient for you.

Best regards,

Paul.

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Anselm Helbig]

At Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:33:46 +0800,
Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?
> 
> I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
> there some mode like Excel in emacs?

Have a look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryFinancial

HTH, 

Anselm


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Anselm Helbig - http://mnemonikk.org

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Memnon Anon]

Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

> At Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:33:46 +0800,
> Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?
>> 
>> I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
>> there some mode like Excel in emacs?
>
> Have a look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryFinancial

http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg10198.html

In this mail, Matthew Lundin describes a setup for tracking expenses
with orgmode.

,----[ Quote Matthew Lundin ]
| If your needs are simple (i.e., just tracking discretionary spending)
| you might consider using properties and column views to keep track of
| where your money is going. I find that this creates a nice way to sum
| up weekly, monthly, and yearly expenditures.
| [...]
| For more sophisticated financial tracking, I'd probably recommend a
| tool devoted to that purpose.
`----

hth

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Tim X]

Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid> writes:

> Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?
>
> I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
> there some mode like Excel in emacs?
>

There are a few solutions.

1. Org mode has some basic abilities to do simple spreadsheet like
operations and I think there is a contrib package for org to provide
simple ledger style operations. 

2. Emacs 22 and 23 come with SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet), which could
be used to maintain data on expenditure etc. 

3. John Wheatly is working on a command line ledger/accounting program.
As John has done lots of emacs development (Muse, Planner mode etc) it
is likely he is also factoring in an emacs interface (just an assumption
on my part)

4. emacs has Calc mode and while this may be using a sledge hammer to
crack a nut, it could possibly do what you want.

5. depending on your needs, it probably wouldn't be too hard to use
something like edb (Emacs database mode), emacs forms etc to roll your
own.

the first thing I would check ot would be org mode as you get so much
other stuff with this mode.

Tim


-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Memnon Anon]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> 3. John Wheatly is working on a command line ledger/accounting program.
> As John has done lots of emacs development (Muse, Planner mode etc) it
> is likely he is also factoring in an emacs interface (just an assumption
> on my part)

John Wiegley already wrote a ledger-mode for emacs.

,----[ Ledger Manual: 3.11 Using Emacs to Keep Your Ledger ]
| In the Ledger tarball is an Emacs module, ledger.el. This module makes
| the process of keeping a text ledger much easier for Emacs users
`----

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid> writes:

> Is there any mode to keep notes about how I spend my money?
>
> I am just very interesting to try some mode like keeping budget. Or is
> there some mode like Excel in emacs?

I use SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet, included on Emacs 23). My needs are
very simple, though: just estimate how much time I have before becoming
homeless :-)

-- 
Óscar

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Sean Sieger]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

    I use SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet, included on Emacs 23). My needs are
    very simple, though: just estimate how much time I have before becoming
    homeless :-)

Thanks for the giggle!  Awesome.

Re: Can I keep budget using Emacs?

[Sean Sieger]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

    I use SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet, included on Emacs 23). My needs are
    very simple, though: just estimate how much time I have before becoming
    homeless :-)

After I explained to my six-year-old daughter what it was that I
laughing about, she asked, ``What did one centipede say to the other
centipede?''

``Uhh ...'' I desperately tried.

``Ow!  My foot, my foot, my foot ...'' she answered, recursively,
seemingly knowingly.