Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

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

On Monday 04 June 2007 15:14, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > I don't like it at all.
> > 
> > If I want the history, then I want it to show all the
> > commands I issued, in the order they were issued.  The condensed
> > form you show above would not let me determine from the history
> > command what was the value of 'foo' when I made the most recent
> > plot.  It's one thing to remove a series of "replot; replot; replot..."
> > commands, since nothing changes between them.  But your example
> > is hiding important changes.
> 
> Well, it could be programmed that way [but what user keeps typing replot; replot 
> without making any changes in between? :-)].

Anyone who closes the plot window to do something else for a while?
To get it back again, he types "replot".  I do this all the time.

> The "do not put redundant commands  
> in the history stack" as 

But your example has no redundant commands!  You are erasing
commands that had a real effect on the contents of my screen.

> gnuplot currently behaves has the same problem you're  
> pointing out.

Ah, so maybe that's the reason I always found history to be
unreliable.  I thought it was just an annoying bug that some of my
commands seemed to disappear. I never figured out any rhyme or
reason to it.

I strongly request that the default history behaviour is to leave
all my commands in place.  I would consider this a bug-fix.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt