[Feature Request] Have => trigger a calculation parse from previous = sign even if spans multiple lines about literate-calc-mode.el HOT 1 OPEN

Thank you for the kind words. Funnily enough I had never heard of Calca before, but it looks remarkably similar, multiple discovery strikes again.

You've got an interesting idea there. I can see how it can become a bit cluttered with a lot of named intermediate values.

The original reason why I included results on every line was that I'm doing line-wise processing, so each line can (in theory) be calculated with just itself and a map of variable names to values. It has since turned out that this is also useful to verify that things are working and there are no typos, which might be hard to track down if intermediate results are hidden.

In theory this should be possible though, we have all the data already, we could do the calculations, add them to our map but don't display an overlay, and then trigger the overlay manually.

Another complication is that especially with inserting the results, we're doing a lot of text-munging for lack of proper metadata (it's just text after all), and this would make it hard to reliably track the relationships between calculations and results across edits. We're already treading the hashrocket in a more magical way than I originally intended (I was planning to make that a defcustom).

This is not me saying wontfix, more laying out thoughts.

from literate-calc-mode.el.