Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

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

On Monday 04 June 2007 15:19, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> > Well, it could be programmed that way [but what user keeps typing replot; replot 
> > without making any changes in between? :-)].  The "do not put redundant commands 
> > in the history stack" as gnuplot currently behaves has the same problem you're 
> > pointing out.
> 
> Keep in mind with an option
> 
>    set history {full|condensed} {quiet|numbered}
> 
> it could be
> 
>    1 foo = 35
>    2 plot x*foo
>    3 foo = 25
>    4 plot x*foo
>    5 history
>    6 foo = 20
>    7 plot x*foo
>    8 history
> 
> or
> 
>    1 foo = 35
>    3 foo = 25
>    6 foo = 20
>    7 plot x*foo
>    8 history

The logic here escapes me.
Why are the "plot x*foo" commands any more redundant than the
"foo = baz" commands?  Even apart from the fact that one version
can produce 3 windows on my screen, and the other only 1, what
happens if "foo" has side-effects?  These two sequences of
commands are not equivalent.

OK, I can understand not putting the "history" command on the
history stack.  But everything else should remain visible.


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