bug#24612: 26.0.50; calc: insertion/deletion of chars not at point in calc minibuffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x calc RET
>> 9123
>> I) C-a C-d ; Delete 3 instead of 9, number:912
>> II) C-b C-b; Point is right after 9.
>> III) <backspace> ; Delete 2 instead of 9, number: 91
>> IV) C-a 8 ; Number: 918 instead of 891.

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> But, anyway, I'm guessing this behavior is on purpose.  I'm not a calc
> user, but is there anybody here who are?  And are attached to the
> current way this works?  

I went ahead and applied the patch to Emacs 28, but if there's any
complaints, I guess we should revert it.  The new behaviour sounds a lot
less confusing than the old one, though, but I'm not a regular Calc
user.

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