From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Schlauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:19:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y7kvxj6p.fsf@arcor.de> <87odlrkn74.fsf@truman.edu> <87tzvhcul9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <863b2z2mma.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <55350.128.165.123.18.1176926533.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <86ps5zuwmi.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <87ps5zi1h2.fsf@truman.edu> <87slat42km.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: cs-usenet@arcor.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177237116 15065 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2007 10:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:18:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 12:18:30 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 1HfZ9I-00085o-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfZEY-0001kX-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfZEN-0001j8-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfZEK-0001i9-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfZEK-0001hr-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:23:40 -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 1HfZ91-0000lD-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HfZ8v-0006Es-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from finn.gmane.org ([80.91.229.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from cs-usenet by finn.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:18:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: finn.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: 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:69781 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > In any case, while there are clearly some people which know about and > like the current behavior -- so any change would unfortunately cause > _some_ pain -- I suspect even more people get screwed up by calc's > deviation from standard practice (and often probably don't realize it > until they detect later than their calculation turned out wrong for some > reason). Full ACK. As the splash screen says: GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. But imagine one of NASA's space missions failing because some guy/girl likes to use Emacs... that's no good advertising for us. Regards, Christian