From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10554: 24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:45:55 -0600 Message-ID: <87bopz5pt8.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8762g8i7s6.fsf@niu.edu> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327009618 29898 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2012 21:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10554@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 22:46:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzos-00028u-6i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:46:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzor-0000GA-Rw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzop-0000G5-36 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzoo-0002RI-1a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzon-0002RE-V0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnzpy-0005ei-Jd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:48:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jay Belanger Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10554 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10554-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10554.132700963621675 (code B ref 10554); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10554) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jan 2012 21:47:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35755 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnzpE-0005dV-Be for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:47:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.truman.edu ([150.243.162.204]:34361 helo=uranium.truman.edu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RnzpB-0005dE-Sw for 10554@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from belanger-office (vh213601.truman.edu [150.243.162.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8F1F12827F; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:45:54 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <8762g8i7s6.fsf@niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:24:41 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55860 Archived-At: > In Calc type ... > Convert this to SI units with u c si RET > - That's perfect. We get a dimensionless number. ... > Now when we type again u c, Calc remembers what we did before. > So as a unit it offers "default 1". Calc should probably offer "si" as the default in this case. > Let's take this default. > So just type RET > > Error: No units specified > > In other words: if an expression with units simplifies to a > dimensionless number, Calc does not accept the unit "1", though it > even offers this unit as a default for calc-convert-units. Calc shouldn't offer "1" as a default; I'll fix it so that it doesn't do that anymore. I'll also change it so that Calc can offer unit systems and composite units as default units, but that should probably wait until after 24.1 comes out. Jay