I set out this morning to begin hacking away on my parser/writer as mentioned on the mailing list recently, but immediately ran into this.
It has always bothered me that posting metadata is not indented an additional 2 spaces by beancount-mode.
Consider the decision: "scheduled" line in the following:
2013-08-26 * "Buying some shares of Hooli"
statement: "confirmation-826453.pdf"
Assets:BTrade:HOOLI 10 HOOL @ {498.45 USD}
decision: "scheduled"
Assets:BTrade:Cash
To make sure I did not imagine seeing this, I looked it up in the documentation and indeed, it says:
the additional indentation from the posting is not strictly necessary but it helps with readability
So I had a look around, and if I am interpreting this comment correctly, it seems like it bothers you, too(?).
It does not seem to me like this ever got implemented. I looked through the code (and issues here) as well as starting up a clean, default Emacs and then loading the latest beancount.el (from git), invoking the mode and trying it, but it seems the behavior is as I always remembered it (metadata gets indented 2 spaces just like postings). Did I miss anything?
I started to implement this in my (soon-to-be) downstream library, but then I thought this is something that should better live here. If there is interest, I could try and get a patch together (actually, I'll probably start working on it anyway).
Personally I prefer the additional indentation, but we could make it optional of course.
Hi Danielle (and others),
I set out this morning to begin hacking away on my parser/writer as mentioned on the mailing list recently, but immediately ran into this.
It has always bothered me that posting metadata is not indented an additional 2 spaces by
beancount-mode.Consider the
decision: "scheduled"line in the following:To make sure I did not imagine seeing this, I looked it up in the documentation and indeed, it says:
So I had a look around, and if I am interpreting this comment correctly, it seems like it bothers you, too(?).
It does not seem to me like this ever got implemented. I looked through the code (and issues here) as well as starting up a clean, default Emacs and then loading the latest
beancount.el(from git), invoking the mode and trying it, but it seems the behavior is as I always remembered it (metadata gets indented 2 spaces just like postings). Did I miss anything?I started to implement this in my (soon-to-be) downstream library, but then I thought this is something that should better live here. If there is interest, I could try and get a patch together (actually, I'll probably start working on it anyway).
Personally I prefer the additional indentation, but we could make it optional of course.