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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 24612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24612: 26.0.50; calc: insertion/deletion of chars not at point in calc minibuffer
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:42:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1sduwnm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3a7e6h6uy.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2019 02:00:05 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x calc RET
>> 9123
>> I) C-a C-d ; Delete 3 instead of 9, number:912
>> II) C-b C-b; Point is right after 9.
>> III) <backspace> ; Delete 2 instead of 9, number: 91
>> IV) C-a 8 ; Number: 918 instead of 891.

[...]

> But, anyway, I'm guessing this behavior is on purpose.  I'm not a calc
> user, but is there anybody here who are?  And are attached to the
> current way this works?  

I went ahead and applied the patch to Emacs 28, but if there's any
complaints, I guess we should revert it.  The new behaviour sounds a lot
less confusing than the old one, though, but I'm not a regular Calc
user.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-11 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 11:32 bug#24612: 26.0.50; calc: insertion/deletion of chars not at point in calc minibuffer Tino Calancha
2019-06-25  0:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-11 13:42   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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