Re: -persist command line option and the wxWidgets terminal

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Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:

> This option is used by external programs, like maxima, to control=
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> gnuplot. They send their commands through a pipe or a file or whate=
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> they let gnuplot exit at the end of the commands, but as they want =
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> plot windows to stay open, they use "persist".

The problem is that these programs are abusing persist.  Persist isn'=
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useful for external programs that will keep on running and doing othe=
r
things while gnuplot sits there.  They should either keep gnuplot, an=
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their pipe to it, open, or not care about whether gnuplot terminates=
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itself or not.

> P.S. : I tend to think that "persist" was a bad idea in the first p=
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It wasn't.  But Maxima shouldn't be using it.