Re: q for quit in plot windows

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2007 10:39, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> 
>>No, let us keep the <space> hotkey, and if somebody does not find it 
>>convenient, he can rebind it. There was no complain or report on this issue 
>>from any user.
> 
> 
> This is just wrong. You cannot rebind it.
> 
> As I keep trying to point out, the current implementation of
> 'q' and ' ' bypasses the "bind" mechanism altogether, and cannot be
> changed by the user.  This is bad. 
> 
> And people *do* complain. My work-around was to introduce the -ctrlq
> option, which returns both ' ' and 'q' to being processed like any 
> other key.

This is what I have in mind.

   This is what you proposed with your "on/off" idea, right?
> Let's make *that* the default.  No special treatment for the 'q' and
> ' ' keys unless the user specifically requests it.

Not even user specified.  If gnuplot launches with a working mouse, simply send 
a code (as yet not implemented) to gnuplot_x11 to indicate it shouldn't handle 
any keys itself, but pass them all on.  It's a legacy thing; if there's no 
mouse, you'd still have the 'q' and ' ' to fall back on.  The on/off isn't for 
the user.

   There are several
> patchsets on SourceForge exploring how the "raise console" operation
> could be made a user option.

If one goes that route, then all that need be done is bind ' ' to the raise 
console command.  I'd even like it if the command line window didn't lose focus 
when a new plot comes up.  (That'd be a gnuplot_x11 thing I guess.)

Dan