From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <87626md8aj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83vcem6592.fsf@gnu.org> <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> <50732AD7.8000003@cs.ucla.edu> <5073C3F6.40606@cs.ucla.edu> <5074AEEC.1010900@cs.ucla.edu> <87txu3m5gt.fsf@gmail.com> <87d30p9pmh.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350006764 20120 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2012 01:52:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 03:52:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TMUQj-0000VQ-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:52:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMUQd-0006xr-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMUQb-0006xY-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMUQa-00064S-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:42823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMUQa-00064O-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMUQZ-0000Cj-VZ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:52:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d30p9pmh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:09:42 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154290 Archived-At: I think what would be most useful to users is for a message to to appear in the echo area informing the user that the result is given in the Gregorian calendar and other calendars may apply whenever the result is a historical date (before 1900 if we use the Russian case as the cutoff). This could be a good idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call