insect

Apparently this replaces https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

Looks a lot like Numi (https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi), which I've used for years and found to be extremely useful. (In fact, they're so similar, I wonder if one is a riff off the other.) For non-Mac, there's an open-source web app called that's similar and looks nice too (haven't used it much): https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

Insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect It is a bit slow but has decent features, including some physical units support. I set up Tilda (or another Guake equivalent; I tried a bunch of them and can’t remember on which I settled in the end) to run it automatically when a terminal is opened, when pressing Scroll Lock. It’s quite neat: when I need to do a quick calculation, I just hit Scroll Lock, which spawns a drop down terminal with the focus; then type whatever I want to calculate; then control-D to dismiss the drop down terminal and I am back in whatever I was doing without moving either hand off the keyboard. I do more or less the same thing on my Mac with Alfred.

Also in this space is insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect and https://www.insect.sh/

Thanks, I did not know that units is able to work with constants. I always used Insect[0] for this. 0: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

As a RPN calculator user, my first choice is XCalc (http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/). The non-RPN one that I use the most is SpeedCrunch (http://speedcrunch.org/), Insect (https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/) and Frink (http://frinklang.org/). All have unit conversion too.

I use insect almost daily ( https://github.com/sharkdp/insect ). It’s a command line calculator, not sure how well it would integrate with comint on emacs. Unit conversions built-in. I don’t know whether it has an RPN mode. The other thing I do frequently is fire up a python3 repl for quick hits. I just did it yesterday for a complex mass file rename I couldn’t figure out how to do with shell variable replacement. With python it was easy with glob and os.rename.

> Granted, I don't really do any complex calculations in my terminal. Same. I use insect — https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

I use Insect[0][1] as my calculator and it is great and does not have the odd choice of having case-insensitive identifiers plus does not require me to have Haskell installed. I would prefer if Insect was written in a compiled language but I am glad that it exists and JavaScript is really not a deal breaker for me as I need nodejs installed anyway (the same cannot be said for Haskell and this is going to be true for most people) plus you can get "compiled" single binaries for it from the release page[2] that you can put in `~/.local/bin` and not worry about it. I highly recommend trying it out. A bit slow to start but if your window manager supports hiding/showing bound windows through user defined shortcuts (like bspwm, awesomewm, i3, sway, herbstluft and most other tiling window managers) then you can just have it launch in the backgrou

Having used bc as my calculator for a while, i recently switched to insect - because it has fore features. For example it can parse and convert between physical units and has a lot of predefined constants. So instead of using two command line tools (bc to calculate, units to convert) i just use insect. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect There is a web version available as well: https://insect.sh

This is great. The same author also wrote insect, which is cool, too. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

Thank you. Same request is tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/86