VSCode mainbeanfile: no effect [solved]

I’d love to use the autocomplete feature based on my full ledger, but i can’t get it working. Any suggestions?

[SOLVED: see solution at the bottom of this opening post]

System: WSL Ubuntu 18.04 & VSCode, beancount extension

steps to reproduce:

1. in terminal, cd to main bean folder
2. enter “code .”
3. in the vscode window, look for the setting “beancount.mainBeanFile” and override default to “~/pathToLedgerFolder/LedgerFiles/main.bean” Question: should this be in user or workspace preferences? I put it in both to be sure.
4. make file child.bean and add the line “include child.bean” to main.bean. save main.bean.
5. open child.bean, enter the following incomplete transaction and observe no autocomplete suggestions:

intended behavior: show suggestions from main.bean and all included files (image from within main.bean:

I also made the settings.json with

{
    "beancount.mainBeanFile": "~/pathToLedger/LedgerFolder/Ledgerfiles/main.bean"
}

according to the scheme below. I wonder how it relates to the user/workspace settings of vscode

BeanFolder ├── ledgerFiles │ ├── .vscode │ │ └── settings.json │ └── main.bean

SOLUTION

The cause of the problem was

1. me specifying an absolute path of the main.bean file where a relative path is required.
2. me using “~/” instead of “home/” for specifying the python path.

so i could fix the problem by changing

{
    "beancount.mainBeanFile": "~/pathToLedger/BeanFolder/Ledgerfiles/main.bean",
    "beancount.python3Path": "~/path/miniconda3/envs/Bean/bin/python3"
}

to

{
    "beancount.mainBeanFile": "main.bean",
    "beancount.python3Path": "home/path/miniconda3/envs/Bean/bin/python3"
}

just to be clear, these lines need to be

BeanFolder
├── ledgerFiles
│   ├── .vscode
│   │   └── settings.json  <- in this file
│   └── main.bean

you can find the correct relative path by right clicking the main.bean in the explorer pane:

the correct python path you can find by entering which python3 and copy-pasting the answer

[edit] with these 2 paths in my Workspace Setting I managed to activate auto completion without the restriction of having the main bean folder as vscode working space folder.

[Dr-Nuke]

I guess the issue is ~ in beancount.python3Path. Maybe you can try a full path?

you nailed it. that fixed it. now the suggestions in child.bean are properly displayed. i will edid the opening post with the solution and then we can close this.

thanks a ton for your help & suggestions!

[Lencerf]

Can you please open VSCode’s Output panel and switch to beancount to show me the content like this?