Re: For gnuplot 4.2 rc3

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

On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:54, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> I wish rc3 appears soon. There, I propose the following changes:
> 
> 1. Apply [ gnuplot-Bugs-1612995 ] Flag 'interactive' not reset to FALSE
>    after '-' plot script

As per the comments attached to the bug report, I don't think that
patch is the correct fix for the problem.  The problem is not the
interactive flag; it is a failure to distinguish between a typed
"load" command  and an additional input file.

 
> 2. I propose to set
> 	--with-readline=gnu
>    to be the default, instead of the built-in readline.
>    People (except for some distributors) always use this option,
>    and setting this to default will save us time to answer those
>    permanent emails "tabulator does not work in the new version".

Fine with me.  Do you have a patch?

I was just about to prepare the -rc3 tarball, but I'll wait for your
readline configuration patch if you have it ready to go.

	Ethan

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742