Re: adding Calc to menu

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 03:21, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > Shouldn't the "Simple Calculator" be merged with Calc?  Emacs Calc
>     > provides a simple calculator as well scientific calculators, infix or
>     > prefix entry, simplification, and more.
> 
>     I agree.  I'll talk to the author of calculator.el about this.
> 
> Merging them might or might not be a good idea.
> It depends on how similar they are.
> It could be that each one has fans, and that the best
> thing we can do is leave them alone.

That is true.  However; as I see things, the only real advantages
calculator.el has over calc are:

1) smaller size
2) menus

(does anyone know of any others?)

I will eventually get around to remedying #2 for calc.  And I'm not sure
#1 is extremely important.  Therefore, it might make sense to just
*eventually* remove calculator.el, and have a function `calculator'
which invokes `calc' in a style very similar to calculator.el.  But
that's a ways in the future; for now, I agree we should keep the status
quo and just add calc to the menu.