Subject: Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from [pod@sapienagents.net]]
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 00:12:49 CDT
rob.campbell@att.net wrote:
>
> Microsoft Word utilizes fields for this purpose, so that
> the original expression can be edited, and supports a
> richer set of operators, such as exponent (^). Now
> that's kind of cool and involves work on features (i.e.
> fields) used elsewhere. There really doesn't seem much
> point (to me) to implementing the feature as it has been
> described so far; to each his own.
>
> That is, unless it included decimal to hexidecimal
> conversion so that I could enter the
> letters 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', and 'f' from the
> keypad. Being an engineer, I really am much more
> efficient with the keypad.
Why doesn't somebody who wants it just code the thing
and make it a plugin. That way only those of us who
want to play with will install it and we can add whatever
we want to it. It'll also be a great exercise for
making plugins.
Andrew Dunbar.
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