Beancount

Simple Beancount support for VSCode

Features

1. Syntax highlight (syntax file from draug3n/sublime-beancount)
2. Decimal point alignment
3. Insert current Date
4. Auto check after saving
5. Code snippets (@vlamacko)

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• beancount.separatorColumn: specify the column of the decimal separator.
• beancount.instantAlignment: Set it to true to align the amount (like 1.00 BTC) once a decimal point is inserted.
• beancount.mainBeanFile: If you are splitting beancount files into multiple files, set this value to either the full path or the relative path to your main bean file so that this extension can get all account information. If it is left blank, the extension will consider the file in the current window as the main file.
• beancount.runFavaOnActivate: If it is set to true, fava will run once this extension is activated.

Best practice

Split your ledger into several .bean files according to time or accounts and put all your open/close in a main file. Include all other files in the main file by the include command. For example, the file structure looks like this

BeanFolder
├── main.bean
├── before2017.bean
├── 2017-01.bean
└── 2017-02.bean

Open BeanFolder with VSCode and set beancount.mainBeanFile to the path of main.bean in the current Workspace Settings.

Known Issues

see GitHub issue page

Release Notes

0.2.3

• Correctly handle terminal-close event.

0.2.2

• Fix some potential bugs;
• beancount.mainBeanFile now cen be set to either a relative path or a full path. (@robotkid)

0.2.1

• Fix a bug related to an empty contentChanges array. (@robotkid)