[Mac-emacs-users] Calc Installation Instructions
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From: Andrew C. <ch...@tr...> - 2000-03-30 03:31:58
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Hi Everyone, I'm still on a short break from programming Emacs. But I'd like to share with you something really interesting that I discovered yesterday: Calc. Calc is a calculator package written in Emacs Lisp. It is quite powerful and has features such as infinite precision, symbolic algebra and calculus, hexidecimal and binary display modes, etc. It has a 500-page manual! For a full set of features, see this on-line manual, e.g. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/texinfodoc/calc_toc.html Here is what you need to do to install Calc. 1. Download the file calc-2.02f.tar.gz from any GNU software mirror. You can of course always get it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/calc/calc-2.02f.tar.gz 2. Unpack this using StuffIt Expander. Since these are all source files, it doesn't matter which end of line setting you use. 3. The resulting folder calc-2.02f can be placed anywhere on your system. The instructions that follow assume you have put it in :emacs-20.6:site-lisp:. 4. Open the Emacs application. Then load the file calc-maint.el by typing: M-x load-file RET ~/../site-lisp/calc-maint.el RET 5. Then byte-compile the Calc source files by typing M-x calc-compile RET (This will take a while.) 6. Then set up the autoloads and load path in your .emacs file by typing M-x calc-private-autoloads RET 7. Build the Calc info file by first finding the file calc.texinfo C-x C-f ~/../site-lisp/calc.texinfo RET Ignore the bell and the message Fontifying calc.texinfo...buffer too big that Emacs generates. Then format the info file by typing M-x texinfo-format-buffer (This will take a while.) Ignore the bell and the message Fontifying calc.info...buffer too big 8. Now exit and re-enter Emacs and you are ready to use Calc! The prefix key for enter Calc is set to M-#. If you are using the command key as meta key, M-# is also command-shift-3, which invokes the screen shot function on the Mac. You can type ESC # instead, or change the line (global-set-key "\e#" 'calc-dispatch) that Calc adds to your .emacs file. To get you started, ESC # c starts Calc, ESC # t gets you into the Calc tutorial, and ESC # i show the info file for Calc. Have fun! If anyone has interesting experience using Emacs on the Mac, please share! Andrew. |