created by

Tom Link

script type

utility

description

It turns out that ruby is pretty good at maths and deals well with complex or rational numbers etc. Anyway, in certain occasions a postfix syntax and a stack are better suited for calculations than ruby's infix syntax. So, here comes ... :TCalc[!]     A small ruby-based[*] RPN-calculator, a simple ASCII function     plotter, and stack-based playground :-). The tcalc.rb script can also be used as a stand-alone calculator (with optional support for curses and readline). Run "tcalc --help" for information on the command-line options. Input:     - Numbers (anything that starts with "-" or a decimal)     - Strings (anything that matches /^"(.*?)"$/)         - Be aware that the strings and numbers get evaluated by ruby.           You can thus execute ruby code by input like: -1;p'foo'     - Methods & constants of the following classes are available:         Float    :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Float.html         Complex  :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Complex.html         Rational :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Rational.html         Integer  :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Integer.html         Matrix   :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Matrix.html         Vector   :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Vector.html         Math     :: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Math.html     - #N (pull the item at position N to the top)     - Commands: COMMAND[COUNT][,ARGUMENT]         - If COUNT is "#", the top element will be used.     - Enter, escape => exit Tokens are separated by blanks (à la forth). The blanks between the words thus are significant.

install details

As VIM-plugin: Extract the archive's contents to ~/vimfiles (or ~/.vim). Stand-alone ruby script: Copy the file ruby/tcalc.rb to your path (you could also rename it to tcalc). Also available via git http://github.com/tomtom/tcalc_vim

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
tcalc.vba	0.13	2011-05-26	7.0	Tom Link	- help command (not really useful yet) - help (not really useful yet) - ruby 1.8 compatibility - FIX: help command - Interpret .[0-9]+ as float (suggested by John Orr) - .gitignore MD5 checksum: b2f2bf21e1fe9cb0bdc612a7cb973621
tcalc.zip	0.11	2007-12-05	7.0	Tom Link	- New words: all?, any?, array_*, and, or, != - Curses frontend: Show possible completions; map 127 to backspace, F1 to 'ls'; improved handling of cursor keys etc. - Debugger (sort of) - FIX: Nested blocks & more
tcalc.zip	0.10	2007-11-30	7.0	Tom Link	- rm,* ... Remove all words - If g:tcalc_lines < 0, use fixed window height. - VIM: use the tcalc window to display plots, lists etc. - FIX: Nested words and some more
tcalc.zip	0.9	2007-11-28	7.0	Tom Link	- FIX: Curses frontend: Display error messages properly - FIX: readline support. - FIX: sort words on completion - Distribute as zip
tcalc.vba.gz	0.8	2007-11-27	7.0	Tom Link	- Named arguments: args is a synonym for assert but provides for named arguments. - New words: Sequence/seq, map, mmap, plot (a simple ASCII function plotter), stack_size, stack_empty?, iqueue_size, iqueue_empty? - Syntactic sugar for assignments: VALUE -> VAR - Defined "Array" as a synonym for "group" - "define" command as alternative to the forth-like syntax for defining words - Dynamic binding of words/variables (the words "begin ... end" establish a new scope) - The stack, the input queue, and the dictionary are accessible like words (__STACK__, __IQUEUE__, __WORDS__) - TCalc and tcalc#Calculator take initial tokens as argument. - TCalc! with [!] will reset the stack & input queue. - Completion of partial commands - Readline-support for CLI mode (--no-curses). - Simple key handling for the curses-based frontend - Non-VIM-versons save the history in ~/.tcalc/history.txt - #VAR,METHOD has slightly changed. - TCalc syntax file. - FIX: Command line completion
tcalc.vba.gz	0.7	2007-10-29	7.0	Tom Link	- Comments: /* ... */ - New words:     - assert: Display an error message if the stack doesn't match the     assertion.     - validate: Like assert but push a boolean (the result of the check)     on the stack.     - do: synonym for recapture.     - source: load a file (see also g:tcalc_dir)     - require: load a ruby library     - p: print an object (doesn't do much, but prettyprint seems     to have problems)     - history (useful when using tcalc as stand-alone calculator) - tcalc.rb can now be used as stand-alone program (a simple curses-based frontend).
tcalc.vba.gz	0.6	2007-10-26	7.0	Tom Link	- Included support for rational and complex numbers - Included matrix support - Syntax for pushing arrays [ a b c ... ] - New "at" method to select an item from array-like objects - Removed shortcut variables.
tcalc.vba.gz	0.5	2007-10-12	7.0	Tom Link	- Minor fix: command regexp
tcalc.vba.gz	0.4	2007-10-08	7.0	Tom Link	- COUNT can be "#", in which case the top number on the stack will be used (e.g. "3 dup3" is the same as "3 3 dup#") - Disabled vars, (, ) commands - Variables are words - New words can be defined in a forth-like manner ":NAME ... ;" - Built-in commands get evaluated before any methods. - Messages can be sent to objects on the stack by "#N,METHOD", e.g. "1 2 g2 3 #1,<<" yields "[1,2,3]" - The copyN, cN command now means: push a copy of element N. - ( ... ) push unprocessed tokens as array - recapture command (feed an array of unprocessed tokens to the input queue) - if, ifelse commands - delN, deleteN commands - Can push strings ("foo bar") - "Symbols" à la 'foo (actually a string)
tcalc.vba.gz	0.3	2007-10-07	7.0	Tom Link	- The swap count argument is increased by one (for conformance with the rot command). - Shortcuts are now RPN expression (elements at the stack can be referred to by # (= top element) or #N). - Removed g:tcalc_reverse_display - Positions on the stack can be referred to by #N. - rot works the other way round - d, dup command - clear command - print, hex, HEX, oct, dec, bin, float, format commands - Removed dependency on tlib - Variables; ls, vars, let, =, rm commands - Command line completion for variables and commands
tcalc.vba.gz	0.2	2007-10-07	7.0	Tom Link	- Arguments were (not properly) reverted: 12 4 / now yields 3. - The input will be split into tokens, i.e. you can input "1 2 + <cr>" or "1<cr>2<cr>+<cr>". (Command-line completions doesn't work properly though.) - The syntax has slightly changed: "CmdCount,Arg", eg, "y3,a"
tcalc.vba.gz	0.1	2007-10-07	7.0	Tom Link	Initial upload

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