Re: historysize

[Theo H. <th...@ph...>]

Ga=EBl Varoquaux wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:31:18AM -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>=20
>> The data file "using"=20
>>format is like this; 0 means point, -1 means line number, -2 means inde=
x=20
>>number.  I find that not user friendly.
>=20
>     Agreed. I prefer words. And I have often heard users of gnuplot
> complain about such numbers that they cannot remember.

I've no opinion on the merits of a keyword or number in setting the=20
history size, since it seems to me that this is something that's set=20
once (in .gnuplot or equivalent) and then forgotten. For more frequently=20
used options (especially `using`) numbers are a good thing IMO, for the=20
following reasons:
- I personally forget keywords more easily than numbers
- numbers are generally shorter than keywords =3D less typing
- variables can be used in place of numbers
- numbers are the same across all languages

THeo