From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; calc: units conversion changes value Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:36:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y7dty99l.fsf@wilson.homeunix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193164619 872 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2007 18:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:36:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 20:37:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkOcU-0004jC-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:36:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkOcM-0002Lk-6q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkOcH-0002Hs-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkOcF-0002Cf-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkOcF-0002CM-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IkOcD-0007Je-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IkOc9-0006tU-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:36:29 +0000 Original-Received: from accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.92.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:36:29 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:36:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: accountslaptop.gradunion.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAG1BMVEUAAAA9Cgm3Hx1WWFWA gn+WmJWsrqv4+vcCAwCRl2MkAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAAAYoA AAGKATOXMFgAAAAHdElNRQfXAQwDNR+ZJmElAAABIklEQVQoz22SPW+DQAyGWUq65qasd9PNUSX4 AZHK2C1rJy5jpDS4IwRVup9dn7GNafpKIPPgzztXFSujqq1eM2n8h22oMkvxI/i9C97kRfMRUN55 dS3BrsAwBXUtMLAO4lryh8kTjOxKpQNniNxAgZOEe4bZwsDTFhKdqZRLNII4OQNHhEuq/RMkm6Cj TnnEA/fk0BorcYn5qA3oaeAxbaBOLrX+9G48NZ2Fzc2tzDM8Q+tMypEOqYHh8mAWaaK3U/cDMOT5 aMZMABgPXc7zPMs1A8DXO756GFJ/4fMEq47hTsAdn5avoxZ4ywl0c2w4Flu2Ybeyb3S+EqxX2DYA H8veJGEDTnHnrXvRaPyt+2kSfK6rfBZ2tUtfP/mR+pR6sX8BUZ/cDV7tvkoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20071010) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Upd4YD8KNNOa0Z06OFBkSv/HRs= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81583 Archived-At: On 2007-10-23 19:29 +0100, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > In Emacs Calc, when I try to convert between incompatible units, > Calc refuses to convert, which is totally correct behaviour. > However, in some cases it changes the value of the quantity, which > isn't in my opinion: > > Current value on stack: "1". Then "calc-convert-units", Old units: > 1, new units: cm^2. The new value on the stack is "100" but I > expect "1". I can reproduce this on Emacs 2007-10-10. > This is problematic when you mis-typed the new unit and try it again > with the correct one. Then you get indeed the correct target unit but > (if metric prefixes and at least ^2 is involved) with the wrong value. > > Tschö, > Torsten. -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. Use the most powerful email client -- http://gnus.org/