Re: odds and ends

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Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I've probably asked this before, but preceding and trailing white
> spaces... should those not be ignored as the code currently does?

> gnuplot> load ' histograms.dem'
>                                ^
>          Cannot open load file ' histograms.dem'
>          util.c: No such file or directory

> gnuplot> load 'histograms.dem '
>                                ^
>          Cannot open load file 'histograms.dem '
>          util.c: No such file or directory

Erm... are you sure this question makes sense as written?

No, leading and trailing whitespace inside strings should *not* be
ignored. If the code currently does that, that's a bug.

> For the history readline, the Home key places an "OH" in the line and
> the End key places an "OF" in the command line.  

There's an off chance you can fix that by turning of "application cursor 
keys" mode in your xterm.