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Re: adding Calc to menu
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: adding Calc to menu |
Date: |
16 May 2002 14:59:14 -0400 |
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 03:21, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Shouldn't the "Simple Calculator" be merged with Calc? Emacs Calc
> > provides a simple calculator as well scientific calculators, infix or
> > prefix entry, simplification, and more.
>
> I agree. I'll talk to the author of calculator.el about this.
>
> Merging them might or might not be a good idea.
> It depends on how similar they are.
> It could be that each one has fans, and that the best
> thing we can do is leave them alone.
That is true. However; as I see things, the only real advantages
calculator.el has over calc are:
1) smaller size
2) menus
(does anyone know of any others?)
I will eventually get around to remedying #2 for calc. And I'm not sure
#1 is extremely important. Therefore, it might make sense to just
*eventually* remove calculator.el, and have a function `calculator'
which invokes `calc' in a style very similar to calculator.el. But
that's a ways in the future; for now, I agree we should keep the status
quo and just add calc to the menu.
Re: adding Calc to menu, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/15