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2002-03-07
2002-03-07
  • Martin Horvat

    Martin Horvat - 2002-03-07

    I'm not an expert in linux stuff but the last 3.7.1 version had I very some useful features when working in the linux terminal (bash shell):

    - when pressing keyboard button end the cursor jumped to the end of line, and when pressed home it jumped to the beginning

    - when pressed tab key it tried (as in the bash shell) to help me by typing the names of files that I like to plot out

    - the long lines in gnuplot wraped quite nicely (it wasn't perfect but OK)

    This feature in version (3.8i patchlevel 0) don't exists any more. Must I turn some switch ON or OFF, or set some env. variable.
    Please help me because I it quite difficult to work with out this features!

     
    • Hans-Bernhard Broeker

      The existence or non-existence of this feature is not a question of which version of gnuplot you have, but of how you built.   Reading the 'INSTALL' description or just the output of 'configure --help' should have given you a clue or two.

      In a nutshell: you didn't build 3.8i with GNU readline support.

       

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