Re: strange behavior at input data : plot '-' at wgnuplot.

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

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 08:33, Timothée Lecomte wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2008 01:44, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> >   
> >> I found strange behavior at input data : plot '-'.
> >>
> >> At the screen I preessed left arrow cursor key 'M' appeared.
> 
> As far as I remember from the last time I had to dig in that code, the 
> code path for the inlined data does not use readline at all. That's why 
> arrow keys generate garbage instead of editing the line.

Hmm. You are correct.

I have placed a patch on SourceForge to run the inline data through
readline.  

 1899013    Read inline data from '-' via readline() if available

Simple-minded testing here shows no problem, but it is
possible that it could trip up some complicated combination of 
redirected stdin and stderr.  Please give it a try.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt