From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13580: 24.2.92; regression in calc-convert-units Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:24:07 -0600 Message-ID: <20756.3431.129502.895875@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <87y5fdq72z.fsf@lukas.physics.niu.edu> <87y5fau50b.fsf@truman.edu> <20755.59013.344289.873545@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87liazq4su.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360268711 8515 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2013 20:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13580@debbugs.gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 21:25:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y2F-0003PC-PE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:25:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y1w-00053m-6t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y1q-0004zP-Gy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y1n-00012Y-M0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y1n-00012T-Jf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y1m-0003Mt-Cq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Roland Winkler" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13580 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13580-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13580.136026865312889 (code B ref 13580); Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13580) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Feb 2013 20:24:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y0x-0003Lm-Da for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47946) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y0u-0003Le-Rd for 13580@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:24:10 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-68-77-17-140.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.77.17.140]:43763 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3Y0v-00062Y-72; Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:24:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87liazq4su.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2 trial under 24.2.93.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:70833 Archived-At: On Thu Feb 7 2013 Jay Belanger wrote: > convert: > 3 ft/in > This is simply 36. There are no units here, so Calc asks for the old > units. Since someone might wonder why Calc is asking for units, there > is a message pointing out the expression doesn't have any. Please recognize the difference between dimensionless and unitless. 3 ft/in is dimensionless, but it has the unit "ft/in". As calc-convert-units is about converting units and (I suppose) nothing else, there is no need to ask the user here. If the user entered "kg" as the old unit of "3 ft / in" this makes no sense. Please, trust the user she knows what she wants. The new behavior is a regression. Roland