From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:02:49 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50790409.5040605@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <87626md8aj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83vcem6592.fsf@gnu.org> <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> <5072731C.8000408@cs.ucla.edu> <87vcelhux3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350108174 3848 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2012 06:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , James Cloos , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 08:03:00 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 1TMuoN-0005FX-K8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:02:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMuoH-0007GC-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMuoE-0007G7-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMuoD-0003zg-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:46947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMuoD-0003za-AT; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF24FA6000D; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:02:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id I6+yrptult0S; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DC109A60008; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:02:47 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121011 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <87vcelhux3.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:154299 Archived-At: On 10/08/2012 12:28 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > If the goal is to make calc and calendar compatible, wouldn't it also > make sense to shift the numbering of days, so that > (Gregorian) will have day number 1? Yes, that makes sense. I did that in the revised patch, which I filed as Bug#12633 . On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, James Cloos wrote: > I would't remove the history lesson Fair enough, I also did that in the revised patch, fixing some bugs in the history while I was at it. On 10/08/2012 07:59 AM, Jay Belanger wrote: > The patch makes the Gregorian calendar the only choice for Calc, though, > not just the default. It should be configurable On 10/11/2012 05:09 AM, Jason Rumney wrote: > I think what would be most useful to users is for a message to to appear > in the echo area These could both be done, yes. My revised patch doesn't implement these ideas (it just does the simpler fix), but they might be nice add-ons.