GNU bug report logs - #41347
28.0.50; calculator.el: Cannot input negative exponents

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chris Zheng <chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 05:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 41347-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
Cc: 41347-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chris Zheng <chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#41347: 28.0.50; calculator.el: Cannot input negative
 exponents 
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 11:28:21 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
17 maj 2020 kl. 22.26 skrev Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>:

> 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.


[0001-Fix-calculator-entry-of-numbers-with-negative-expone.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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