Re: Quick refresh [was: q for quit in plot windows]

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 14:45, you wrote:
> 
>>>You've got to be able to tell it that somehow, and that's kind of
>>>hard to do without mention the name of the command you want it to use.
>>
>>"set datafile reread/noreread" would accomplish the same thing.  (I'm 
>>considering '-' a datafile (in-line).)
> 
> 
> But that makes it seem like it's a property of the data file [*].
> It isn't.  It's a question of mouse interactions and hot keys.
> That's why I suggested "set mouse ..."
> 
> Actually, I'd much rather have a mechanism that *was* tied to
> specific data files.  That way you could mark a particular
> data file as volatile, or not re-readable.

I too thought of individual file behavior, but I then thought that would only 
complicate matters but that may be an incorrect assumption.

Dan