Re: [4.2-rc1] set term X

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:49 pm, Lutz Maibaum wrote:
> I frequently use 'set term X' as an abbreviation for 'set term X11'. 
> This does not seem to work with the latest version
>
> Up to version 4.0 it seems like the terminal name was case
> sensitive, and "X11" (with the abbreviation "X") was explicitly
> listed to be equivalent to "x11".

No. Up until 4.1 there were actually two terminal driver tables,
one for x11 and one for "X11".  This was pointless, and in fact a
source of error.  You may not have noticed, but the "X11" one
had not been kept up to date with the x11 one.  Anyhow, we got
rid of the redundant table and added a check for "X11" as a
special case. If found, it is converted to "x11".

> Would it be possible to reintroduce "X" as a valid abbreviation of
> "x11", or was this decision made on purpose to clean up the code?

The code clean up was deliberate.  Causing the shorthand form "X"
to fail was unintentional.  It's fixable, at the cost of an extra
line or 2 of code.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA