Ledger support for the gedit text editor, including:

• Basic syntax highlighting
• Transaction snippet
• Git commit command script for version control

I through this together in a few hours, so don't expect everything to be perfect. The syntax highlighting doesn't cover all the syntax that ledger supports and doesn't help catch any mistakes.

The git commit probably doesn't belong here, but it's used for version controlling my ledger files, so here it is.

The goal of this project was to get some ledger support for a basic text editor so that my wife can update our ledger file. I personally use vim and the excellent vim-ledger plugin.

Clone this repo and copy the files for gedit and gtksourceview (the syntax highlighting engine gedit uses):

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs
cp ledger.lang ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs
cp git-commit ~/.config/gedit/tools
cp ledger.xml ~/.config/gedit/snippets

Oh, don't forget to enable the Snippets and Tools plugins in gedit preferences. If you're using git to version control your ledger files, enable the git plugin that shows added/removed/modified lines.

You may want to assign a hotkey to the transaction snippet and the git-commit tool, too.

• Syntax highlighting
  • Catch common mistakes (not having the correct spacing and match () and [] for virtual accounts)
  • Non-dollar commodities
  • Commodity transactions like: 2 BTC @ $800
  • Non-transaction statements
• More snippets
  • For alternative secondary accounts
  • Splits
• Get rid of the git commit command script and find some other way to support Git in gedit