Re: q for quit in plot windows

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Timothée Lecomte wrote:
>>The ctrl-c copy was easy enough.  Just replace "c" with "ctrl-c"...
>>
>>Anyway, I see when typing 'h' for a plot to get the key bindings there are
>>these
>>two at the very top (i.e., follow the button description):
>>
>>
>>  Space          raise gnuplot console window
>>  q            * close this X11 plot window
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>               * indicates this key is active from all plot windows
>>
>>I'm assuming that by the use of term->(function) the mouse/keyboard
>>interface is
>>meant to be very general and not restricted to X11.
> 
> 
> 
> I will try not to repeat what was said by Ethan and Petr, but here are my
> thoughts on this:
> 
> "raise console" and "quit plot window" do not go through the event system
> (because they predate it), they are handled directly by the terminal.
> That's why ' ' and 'q' are keys that you cannot bind to something else,
> with the exception of the 'ctrl-q' option in x11 and wxt.

Right, but the question is why must the documentation for 'q' and ' ' be 
special, sitting out on its own?  Why can't the 'q' and ' ' simply be placed in 
the bindings documentation?

As you explained, the mouse-in-only-one-window limitation came back to me, so 
that is why the asterisk.  Yet, some would consider the mouse-in-only-one-window 
a bug in itself.


> There's no term->close right now, nor is there a term->raiseconsole (and
> that's fortunate, since raising _gnuplot console_ is not the _plot window_
> business).

Petr would think otherwise, I'm guessing from his past posts.  There is the

     set term x11 close

which could be bound to a key.


> Wow, what a long message... Don't hesitate to comment.

No comment on specific terminal implementations, only that it seems easy to fix 
this.

Dan