On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 17:23, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 26, 7:32 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> > wrote: >> As for floating point numbers, I constantly use Vim as a floating-point >> calculator; I wouldn't say it's a useless feature. Not a /necessary/ one >> -- I could do without the trig and exp/log functions > When floating point was included, I thought it to be fairly useless > All that changed when I had to compute a trig function on a large > number of items scattered through a text file. > I did in seconds what it may have taken a good part of > an hour doing by hand, finding each input and plugging it into > Windows' Calculator application, or even into a spreadsheet. Perhaps you would like to give dc(1) a try next time? -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
