Calculator with percent signs

[Charles Garrison]

When using Alfred to calculate percentages, "137*.29" works great, but "137*29%" fails.  This is the one spotlight feature I feel is missing.

[vitor]

Welcome @Charles Garrison,

 

The percent sign already has a special meaning in Alfred’s calculator, for the modulo operator (available in the advanced mode), so changing it to mean percentages might be confusing or cause breaking changes. There could be a settings toggle, but I’m not sure it would be worth it when the point solution exists.

[Charles Garrison]

I tend to agree with your point and I'm not sure it's worth a change.  On that note, if you do decide to make a change...  I think it would make sense to allow character escaping in the way that you can do with regular expressions.  So 3*5% would become 3*5\% - obviously this enables a new power-user feature and everyone else would continue to operate as usual.

 

Charles

[vitor]

4 hours ago, Charles Garrison said:

On that note, if you do decide to make a change

 

To clarify, I don’t decide which features go into Alfred (or not).