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Cannot insert registers in calc

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From: Kuba Orlik <kontakt <at> kuba-orlik.name>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 55943 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55943: Cannot insert registers in calc
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:31:04 +0200

> Registers in Calc have nothing to do with the normal Emacs-wide
registers

Is it then also a bug that when I press "r i" in Calc and wait for a
second then it suggests me the registers (along with their values) that
I created outside of Calc?

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Kuba Orlik <kontakt <at> kuba-orlik.name> writes:
>
>> 1. Run emacs -Q
>> 2. Type the number 20 into the buffer
>> 3. Move the point to the "2" in the "20"
>> 4. Run M-x number-to-register
>> 5. Pick a letter for the register (I picked "a")
>> 6. Run M-x calc
>> 7. Type "r i" and pick the same register
>> 8. It rings a bell and shows "Bad format in register data"
>
> Registers in Calc have nothing to do with the normal Emacs-wide
> registers -- you can only insert with `r i' in Calc stuff you've save
> with `r s' in Calc.  But I see that the doc strings here don't actually
> say this, so I've fixed this for Emacs 28.2.


-- 
Kuba Orlik

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