Re: Touchup of history.c

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > >Several of these options may be overridden by similar qualifiers in the
> > >history command.
> > >      set history {<int>}
> > 
> > I tried that "set history -1" makes an error.
> 
> gnuplot> set history -1
>                      ^
>          Unrecognized option.
> 
> Are you getting something else? 

I get the same.


 Of course, that means the following also

> Should we be recognizing the sign and then issuing an error if negative?

Yes.

>  For "set history 0", could you
> > please document whether is never forgets anything?
> 
> What should "history 0" do?  In the code, n=0 means print everything but that
> doesn't mean we can't issue an error.

I propose "set history 0" means not to store history commands to the 
.gnuplot_history file.

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