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

From: Chris Zheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:01:04 +0800

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:28:21AM +0200, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
>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.

Hello Mattias,

Thank you for fixing it. Still I think it is uncommon to use `rx` here...

Best regards,

Chris