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Is there some extension that can make calc autocomplete units while value entered as algebraic input? e.g.

' 1 kn<tab>

should be completed to "1 knot".

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  • I very much doubt it, but it's an interesting idea, and, probably not too difficult to implement...
    – wvxvw
    Oct 23, 2015 at 9:16
  • @gordon-quad I have never used calc for stuff that would need units. Can you update the question with an example where you would want the auto-completion to happen?
    – Kaushal Modi
    Oct 23, 2015 at 12:57
  • well, as I understnand units are just variables, so I can reformulate question "Is there autocompletion for variable names?"
    – gordon-quad
    Oct 23, 2015 at 15:00
  • Perhaps, abbrev or yas-snippet work fine. I personally (and frequently) use yas-snippet to write elements into 3x3 matrices. (if it's in the calc-edit with '`)
    – Garid
    Mar 16 at 19:13

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Most unit descriptions in calc are usually very short. You will find them when typing u v. In my opinion a completion is here unnecessary, just type a ' (e. g. after typing a number) and specify your unit together with the quantity in algebraic mode.

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    I want to convert database which is provided with "units" calculator so there can be quite long names, like 'solarmass' or 'solarluminosity'
    – gordon-quad
    Oct 23, 2015 at 14:58
  • @gordon-quad: I don't understand your use case. Could you please show this "database"?
    – Dieter.Wilhelm
    Oct 24, 2015 at 16:54
  • no problem. Here is url of calculator: gnu.org/software/units/units.html here is example of database: github.com/ryantenney/gnu-units/blob/master/units.dat Convertion of this db to calc units is matter of simple sed script (maybe throwing away some invalid for ecalc stuff like unicode units or functions) and as you can see it has pretty long unit names and constants.
    – gordon-quad
    Oct 24, 2015 at 17:47

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