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The Ledger tool is fast and simple, but it offers no custom method for actually editing the ledger. It assumes you know how to use a text editor, and like doing so. There is, at least, an Emacs mode that makes editing Ledger's data files much easier.
You are also free to use GnuCash to maintain your ledger, and the Ledger program for querying and reporting on the contents of that ledger. It takes a little longer to parse the XML data format that GnuCash uses, but the end result is identical.
Then again, why would anyone use a Gnome-centric, multi-megabyte behemoth to edit their data, and only a one megabyte binary to query it?