Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> 2008/4/9 Nikolai Weibull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/4/8 Mikolaj Machowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Dnia Tuesday 08 of April 2008, Bram Moolenaar napisa³: > > > > > > > > I have been preparing a talk for the upcoming FISL conference in > > Brazil: > > > > http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/www/ > > > > > > > > > > One of the items I planned to discuss is why Vim has no floating point > > > > support. Well, this turned into actually implementing it. > > > > > Thanks. Should simplify some things. > > > > Please enlighten me, because I don't see the use case for floating > > point values in a text editor. > > > > > > I agree. There are too many items in the todo list waiting to be > incorporated or fixed in Vim. These are all related to text editing. > IMHO, I don't see the support for floating point numbers useful to > editing text. As Bram once said, we should not add a feature to Vim > just because somebody might use it someday. A floating point number an appear in the text. One might want to edit it. I agree the use is limited, but implementation is not much work. I need it myself for adding up a list of numbers and currency conversion. Of course it's possible to use :python or external tools for that. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 10E. You start counting in hex. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
