Subject: Re: bug#41347: 28.0.50; calculator.el: Cannot input negative exponents

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 11:28:21 +0200

17 maj 2020 kl. 22.26 skrev Eli Barzilay <[email-masked]>:

> the idea is to mimic common calculators
> where you can type "3." or "3e" and get 3.

Thank you Eli! I can confirm that after removing all the string transformation prior to the call to string-to-number, everything works as expected except "1.e3" (dot before E). A single transformation taking care of that case was added for the sake of completeness.

The attached patch has now been pushed to master.