Re: Is there a way to start Calc, taking the region as input and replacing it with the value?

[marc tfardy]

Am 01.02.14 18:40, schrieb Marcin Borkowski:
> Well, the subject is basically what I want.  I'd like to be able to
> type, e.g., "2+3", mark it as a region, and press *something* only to
> get it *replaced* by "5".
>
> C-u C-x * g C-x * y q is pretty close, but not the same (and way too
> long to be comfortable).
>
> If there's no such thing, I could probably write it in Elisp myself,
> but why reinvent the wheel?

Exactly for this purpose I use macro-math:
https://github.com/nschum/macro-math.el/blob/master/macro-math.el


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