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I use hledger and I enter everything by hand.

I used to dread it too. But actually, in normal life, the volume of daily transactions is not that large. Besides, filling out a journal disciplines you. And VS Code does autocomplete for accounts and payees.

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Can I ask how you get the autocomplete in VS Code? I've never managed to find an extension that does this, and by default the autocomplete only works on previously seen words (so it gets split by the colons in account names)

I did nothing. It just works out of the box for me.

But. I keep my journal files in a folder and open it using the VS Code project file.

File's name is ledger.code-workspace

{ "folders": [{ "path": "/path/to/journal/directory" }] }

> only works on previously seen words

Yes, that's just it. I do not use anything like a language server.

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