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

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Does it work for the other interactive terminals as well?
>> I thought your wish for the API was that gnuplot is not linked against Xlib.
>
> I would prefer that, yes.  But during the course of this discussion I
> have come to think there is no other way to correctly implement a
> "raise console" function.  It can only be done by the core code.
>
> But if are to make this change, let us at least try to do it as
> cleanly as possible.  It will definitely simplify the hot key
> processing in gnuplot_x11, since it no longer needs to special
> case these exceptions to the general key binding mechanism.
> I am not familiar with the windows/pm code, but I would think
> the same is true there.
>
> I am thinking that the cleanest way is to create a new core routine
> raise_console().

All that is fine with me.

Considering gnuplot under X11, the binary will have to be linked against 
-lX11, but as I can see it adds just 200 B of code, thus this is not an 
issue.

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