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From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:09:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odlrkn74.fsf@truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7kvxj6p.fsf@arcor.de> (Christian Schlauer's message of "Sat\, 14 Apr 2007 13\:57\:18 +0200")


Christian Schlauer <cs-muelleimer-rubbish.bin@arcor.de> writes:
...
> This is something I just feel I have to mention before the release, as
> it is very confusing, IMHO: `*' binds more strongly than `/' in M-x
> calc.
...
> Later, I also found it in the Calc manual:
...
> I believe (but I do not know) that Calc's behaviour is (too) far from
> what `ordinary' people (like me ;-) would expect:
...
> I don't know if it is possible to change the current behaviour,

I agree with what you've said, and it wouldn't be hard to change the
behavior, but, as you say,

> The current behaviour was surely chosen for a reason,

I'm not sure what the reason was, and I'm not sure the behavior should
change without knowing why the unusual behavior was put in place to
begin with.

Jay

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-14 11:57 Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Christian Schlauer
2007-04-14 15:09 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2007-04-15 19:21   ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-15 20:05     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-17 12:47       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-17 18:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-18  8:44           ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-18 19:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-18 20:02               ` Davis Herring
2007-04-18 20:16                 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-18 21:43                   ` Davis Herring
2007-04-19 16:10                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20 11:13                   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-20 13:40                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20 14:07                       ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-22  1:31                         ` Miles Bader
2007-04-22 10:19                           ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-22 10:23                         ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-22 19:47                           ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-23 10:46                           ` Jason Rumney
2007-04-23 13:03                             ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-23 15:54                               ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-25 19:56                                 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-25 20:54                                   ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26  3:35                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26  4:06                                       ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26 14:11                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26 21:07                                           ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 15:07                                         ` Davis Herring
2007-04-26 16:01                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-26 18:32                                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-26 21:29                                               ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 23:17                                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-26 21:07                                     ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-27  1:27                                       ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-26 17:47                                   ` Davis Herring
2007-06-20 15:23                         ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-20 16:02                           ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-20 17:13                             ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-20 17:29                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-20 17:54                               ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-20 19:14                                 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-20 19:28                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-20 20:18                                   ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-17 18:54         ` Jay Belanger
2007-04-18 21:55           ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-19  2:58             ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-22 10:27               ` Christian Schlauer
2007-04-26 16:00                 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-04-19 15:16           ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 17:05             ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 17:18               ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 17:33                 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-16 15:38     ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-17 12:47 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-18 21:29   ` Christian Schlauer

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