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: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 10:14:41 -0600 Message-ID: <20758.30193.907510.81165@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> <20756.3431.129502.895875@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87liazn9ir.fsf@gmail.com> <20756.5321.329711.746535@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <878v6z3k2p.fsf@gmail.com> <83haln8ars.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3qi514c.fsf@gmail.com> <834nhm97y9.fsf@gnu.org> <20757.55102.322862.769049@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <876221zfqy.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 1360426501 843 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2013 16:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:15:01 +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 Sat Feb 09 17:15:22 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 1U4D5F-0000t6-LD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:15:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4w-000396-Co for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4r-00038h-4Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:15:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4m-0000Vc-OL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4m-0000VW-JA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:14:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4v-0001ei-RB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:15:01 -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: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:15:01 +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=B13580.13604264976339 (code B ref 13580); Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13580) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Feb 2013 16:14:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46783 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4r-0001eC-4Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43958) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4o-0001e4-Ao for 13580@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:14:55 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-68-77-17-140.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.77.17.140]:46713 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4D4d-00028b-VW; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:14:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <876221zfqy.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:70952 Archived-At: On Sat Feb 9 2013 Jay Belanger wrote: > > If some people like that in case (3) or (4) they can > > specify an extra unit for the old expression on the stack instead of > > dealing with dimensionless expressions, that's fine with me. > > Okay. The user can do it that way, or ignore the "Old unit:" part and > get the classic behavior. Whatever the user wants. I suggest to give Calc a user option that completely disables the question about an "old unit". If this pops up sometimes, but there is no need for this in a consistent work flow, such a question can be very distracting. (As you surely have noticed by now: I use calc-convert-units all the time!) > Thanks for pointing them out; I will work on them. Thanks, Roland