Re: Org and ledger

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> 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