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Here's some example transactions from the ledger manual:

2011/03/15   Trader Joe's
    Expenses:Groceries   $100.00
    Assets:Checking
2011/03/15   Whole Food Market
    Expenses:Groceries   $75.00
    Assets:Checking

Is there a way to define Checking as an Asset once up front so that I don't have to write Assets:Checking out each time?

So for example, something like this:

define Assets:Checking
define Expenses:Groceries

2011/03/15   Trader Joe's
    Groceries   $100.00
    Checking
2011/03/15   Whole Food Market
    Groceries   $75.00
    Checking
Simon Michael
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In Ledger CLI…

account Assets:Checking
    alias Checking
account Expenses:Groceries
    alias Groceries

2011/03/15   Trader Joe's
    Groceries   $100.00
    Checking
2011/03/15   Whole Food Market
    Groceries   $75.00
    Checking

Two things

  1. define defines a variable
  2. account defines an account (where money sits), "category" in your terms

In HLedger, this would be

account Expenses:Groceries
alias Groceries = Expenses:Groceries

The rest remain the same

Igbanam
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