Re: -persist command line option and the wxWidgets terminal

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Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote:
> Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
>
>> This option is used by external programs, like maxima, to control=20
>> gnuplot. They send their commands through a pipe or a file or=20
>> whatever, they let gnuplot exit at the end of the commands, but as=20
>> they want the plot windows to stay open, they use "persist".
>
> The problem is that these programs are abusing persist.  Persist isn't
> useful for external programs that will keep on running and doing other
> things while gnuplot sits there.  They should either keep gnuplot, and=20
> their pipe to it, open, or not care about whether gnuplot terminates=20
> itself or not.
So do you think the implementation for the wxWidgets terminal is=20
satisfying (i.e. gnuplot's interactive command line stops, but gnuplot=20
doesn't exist until all windows are closed) ?

If yes, I will file a bug against maxima then.
>
>> P.S. : I tend to think that "persist" was a bad idea in the first plac=
e=20
>
> It wasn't.  But Maxima shouldn't be using it.

Ok.

Best regards,

Timoth=C3=A9e