Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

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

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>>After one sets
>>>
>>>  set history condensed
>>>
>>>the up arrow should only sequence through unique commands.  That is the 
>>>way it works here.
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> 
> Yes, condensed works.
> 
> This may be interesting to add "ignoredups" as a variant of "full".

Well, the appearance of bash 'ignoredups' and gnuplot 'condensed' is the same if 
one starts from an empty history.  It would certainly be possible to have the 
options {full|condensed|ignoredups|erasedups}.  Do ignoredups|erasedups add 
anything?


>>Did you find that 'set hist con' solves the problem?  (Place that command in you 
>>gnuplot initialization file.)  If so, is overall behavior acceptable for you?
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> 
> 
> BTW, gnuplot crashes for "h" command ... 
> 
> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> gnuplot> h
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 1094909056 (LWP 14570)]
> FindHelp (keyword=0x81cd030 "", matching_key=0xbfb21ba8, 
> print_best_match_len=0xbfb21ba4) at help.c:479
> 479                         expand_buff[i] = expand_buff[i-shift];
> (gdb) quit

Oh boy.  Did I overlook the most obvious of variations on "help", i.e., no other 
tokens?

I'll fix it and put a new patch on SourceForge.

Thanks,

Dan