Using Vim Macros for Efficient Beancount Financial Data Manipulation
By
xarcolade
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
A technical guide demonstrating how to use Vim macros for manipulating Beancount financial data, showing how to build complex macros from basic Vim motions for efficient financial transaction categorization and management.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledHere I try to describe performing a niche Beancount data manipulation by building up complex Vim Macros from basic Vim Motions
I am often hit with brief periods of motivation to export transactions and fiddle around with assigning and summarising categories in spreadsheets
This is something I pretty quickl
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