Re: Bind <space> to builtin_raise in mouse.c

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:12 am, Petr Mikulik  wrote:
> It should work as it works now.
> 
> Thus: if you run gnuplot on the computer you sit at, the spacebar raises the 
> gnuplot console.

Try this:

$ ssh localhost
$ gnuplot
gnuplot> set term x11
gnuplot> plot x


You will see the plot as normal, assuming you have
ssh-tunneling enabled for X. 
But the spacebar will not work, because your terminal and your
plot window are using different X-display paths. Same machine,
same executable, but a different connection path for X.
So it really is not a question of where you are sitting,
or which machine gnuplot is running on.

You are relying on a fragile mechanism that happens to
work on a common configuration.  But "common" is a very long
way from universal.  As I said, I use gnuplot + x11 every day,
and every day at least some of those uses do not follow
the model you are assuming.  If the feature is truely useful,
then let us try to find a way to make it work for more
cases than it does now.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA