From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Barzilay Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [calc] routine tasks in batch mode Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:39:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <86d3vgqev9.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> <87fx0cnhwx.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <866317r7ax.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> <87sk4bmng0.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291839805 21139 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 20:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:23:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 21:23:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQQXm-0008Pd-Ht for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:23:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQQXl-0004nu-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:23:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ugXjWNJpIrb6MUT2IdE+FQ"; logging-data="9132"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18zWQLZOSHh+YlsZ4TUsYMFVt3zcVK30YU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wpLcR1+ltN7Yqu187YPDvNmn2jI= sha1:10TMEvwEJwSb31C600aoCp8OEVU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179259 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75974 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Giacomo Boffi writes: > >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: >> >>> But given that the purpose of calc is basically a four-operation >>> calculator [...] >> >> you are talking of M-x calculator RET, i'm talking of M-x calc RET, >> let's try to reach an agreement on the object of the discussion :-) Yeah, using `calculator' for batch mode (for any definition of "batch") would be useless. > Perhaps as a mid point M-x calcul RET ? ;-) That's my fault... I liked the idea behind `calc', but every time I started it I could feel the horrible wastage of such a huge piece of work when I just wanted to calculate some grade average or something like that. So I wrote a new package, and since `calc' was taken, I used the next most fitting word... -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!