embedded calc and M-#

headers Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill | 7 Jan 2009 04:48

Salvatore> Greetings!
Salvatore> I love Emacs and would like to use Emacs Calc more
Salvatore> extensively.  I am using Aquamacs Emacs 1.6 preview 4. I
Salvatore> have been reading the GNU Emacs Calc 2.02 manual and have
Salvatore> encountered the following 2 problems:

Salvatore> 1. M-# should start/stop calc and be the basis of all other calc
Salvatore>    commands.  However, when I enter it I get "M-# is undefined".

Salvatore> 2. I am trying to use embedded calc and place ln(ln(x)) as
Salvatore>    per example in section 2.5.6.  However, I am not able to
Salvatore>    get it to evaluate.  M-# does not work and the M-x
Salvatore>    calc-embedded commands that I have tried do nothing.

Salvatore> Any suggestions?

Did you try 'M-x calc' ?  This is how I start calc-mode in Aquamacs.
M-# is indeed not bound to anything even after calc-mode is started.
The use of 'M-x calc-embedded' command that I'm familiar with is to
mark a region containing an expression that calc can evaluate, and
using 'M-x calc-embedded' to have calc evaluate the region.

Cheers, José

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