From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: not good proposal: "C-z " reserved for users Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:43:26 +0100 Message-ID: <8735y06nap.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87y2ftroma.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y2fs2wyu.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15414"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:CPC6oxDhoN6tK5FyebN6r7uSjMY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 15:44:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lAw9Z-0003uZ-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:44:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41492 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAw9Y-0002UB-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:44:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAw93-0002Sn-0h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAw91-0005M7-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:43:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lAw8z-0003L5-JY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:43:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127937 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > (defun pct-of-number-in-total (number total) > "Return the percentage that NUMBER represents in a TOTAL." > (let* ((percent (/ (float total) 100)) > (percentage (/ (float number) percent))) > percentage)) > (pct-of-number-in-total 13973 204612) yields 6.8290227357144255 (defun percent (n d) (let ((pct (* 100 (/ n d 1.0)))) (message "%.1f%%" pct))) (percent 13973 204612) ; 6.8% One thing I don't understand tho - from the `format' docstring For %e and %f sequences, the number after the "." in the precision specifier says how many decimal places to show; if zero, the decimal point itself is omitted. Still (percent 0 200) ; 0.0% Or does that refer to "if one _sets_ it to zero" (message "%.0f%%" 0) ; 0% Right, so that's it... Yeah, so obvious, saying it makes one confused instead :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal