From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Walters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding Calc to menu Date: 16 May 2002 14:59:14 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1021575555.24344.927.camel@space-ghost> References: <1021327438.4406.101.camel@space-ghost> <1021397902.17138.131.camel@space-ghost> <200205160721.g4G7LCY18057@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021575784 6595 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 19:03:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178QWl-0001iG-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:03:03 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178Qit-0002YN-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:15:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178QWs-00019z-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from monk.debian.net ([216.185.54.61] helo=monk.verbum.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178QUA-00016G-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from space-ghost.verbum.private (freedom.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.60.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "space-ghost.verbum.org", Issuer "monk.verbum.org" (verified OK)) by monk.verbum.org (Postfix (Debian/GNU)) with ESMTP id 1A8BD74000BA for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 15:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by space-ghost.verbum.private (Postfix (Debian/GNU), from userid 1000) id 528C682D8AB; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205160721.g4G7LCY18057@aztec.santafe.edu> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4006 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4006 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.