Re: Do we need a -no-init-file option?

[Reiner S. <rei...@im...>]

On Wed, Oct 04 2006, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 1) gnuplot -no-init-file 
>    If the command line option is present,
>    skip the call to load_rcfile()  on line 563 of plot.c
>
> 2) setenv GNUPLOTRC "" ; gnuplot 
>    The init file name is hard-coded into the string constant PLOTRC.
>    We could provide an environment variable that overrides this.
>    Setting it to "" or to any non-existent file name would 
>    bypass the default names "~/.gnuplot" or "gnuplot.ini".
>
> Option 2 has the additional advantage that you could use this
> mechanism to specify alternative initialization files.

Alternatively, you could add `-init-file FILE' (or `-rc-file'?).
`-init-file /dev/null' (or `-init-file nul' on Windows, probably)
would be the same as `-no-init-file'.

> Which would be more portable, and more useful - 
> a command line option or an environmental variable?

I'd prefer a command line option.

Bye, Reiner.
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