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From: <tim...@en...> - 2006-04-26 21:53:03
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> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:24 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote: >> > Anyhow gnuplot already allows you to specify a window title, >> > so all that's wanting is a way to change the prompt. >> > myname =3D "Foo" >> > set term x11 title myname >> > set prompt myname."> " >> > >> >> Many programs I know are able to recognize if an instance is alread= y >> >> running. >> > >> > Probably safer to let the application do the naming. >> > Pure numbers are not the most informative identifiers. >> >> Do you mean : "Probably safer to let the _user_ do the naming" ? > > Well no, I meant the application. My thought > was that if you ran applications A, B, and C simultaneously > (or three instances A, B, and C of a single application like > Octave), then the piped output from these apps to three separate > gnuplot instances would respectively start with a line > "myname =3D 'A'", "myname =3D 'B', or "myname =3D 'C'". > I suppose in this case you could say the application *is* the user. Ok, I get your point. Well, everything is already in place for such a behaviour. Timoth=E9e |