From: Adrian Mariano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Units suggestion To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:20:07 -0500 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:41:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure I ever actually got around to forwarding this suggestion from > Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It doesn't happen often, but occasionally when I am using or needing to > use units, I find myself having to grep units.dat. I don't know what to > call the unit. Maybe we could add a function call, so that we can > grep/query units.dat? I don't think q is used, so maybe we could add > something like: > q(gallon) > which would report back the different "gallons" understood by units? This seems like it might be useful. I'm envisioning a simple substring search on unit names. Right now you can get a list of all the units conformable with a given unit by typing '?' at the "You want" prompt. This feature would need to operate in the same fashion. But what would you type at the "You want" prompt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
