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Calc For Programmers

Posted on 2018-03-23 by jcs

After writing about Florian Adamsky’s post on acronyms in AUCTeX, I snooped around on his site and came across a nice post on Emacs Calc from a programmer’s and computer scientist’s point of view. As regular readers know, I’ve been … Continue reading →

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A Handy Calc Tip

Posted on 2018-01-06 by jcs

As I wrote three weeks ago in these two posts, I’ve renewed my efforts to become semi-proficient with Calc. On the one hand, it’s not that hard. By default, it’s simply a stack based RPN calculator of the sort that … Continue reading →

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More Calc Recipes

Posted on 2017-12-17 by jcs

Yesterday’s post on calc generated an interesting discussion in the comments. Frequent commentor Phil offers a particularly nice example of an easy way to add up a row or column of numbers. That’s something that while it doesn’t come up … Continue reading →

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Chris Wellons on Emacs Calc

Posted on 2017-12-16 by jcs

In a nice piece of ironic serendipity, I found this reference to an old Chris Wellons post on Calc while reading my feed with Chris Wellons’ excellent feed reader, elfeed. As I written a several times, I really like calc … Continue reading →

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Which-key and Calc

Posted on 2017-10-19 by jcs

I ran across this excellent video on Emacs calc and was preparing to write about it. During my research, I discovered that I’d already written about it. That was a couple of years ago so you can consider this a … Continue reading →

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Date Calculations in Org

Posted on 2016-06-02 by jcs

One of the things that always causes confusion and that is hard to find in the documentation is making date calculations in Org. I was reminded of that when I saw a reddit question on making date calculations in an … Continue reading →

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Some Calc Features

Posted on 2016-04-02 by jcs

I haven’t written about Emacs Calc for a while but I find myself using it all the time. It’s one of the lesser known secrets of Emacs and that’s too bad. You can use it as a quick calculator in … Continue reading →

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Calc Tutorial Video

Posted on 2015-08-21 by jcs

Karthik C has a very nice video entitled Emacs-Calc: The Poor Man’s Mathematica. It’s a tutorial on some of the features of Emacs calc. He begins by covering the basic stack machine nature of calc and how to perform simple … Continue reading →

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Lisp Functions in Org Table Calculations

Posted on 2015-06-25 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a nice post on how she uses an Org table to keep track of medications her family needs and how it automatically calculates how many she needs to buy based on how long they need to be … Continue reading →

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A Handy Calc Tip

Posted on 2015-06-19 by jcs

mxavier has a nifty tip for calc: Tiny but nice #emacs TIL: in calc-mode, y will insert the current calculation into the buffer from which you called calc-mode. — mxavier (@mxavier) June 12, 2015 It’s hard to put a lot … Continue reading →

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