[Gnuplot-bugs] ls and path

[Kolmakov, G. V <ge...@pi...>]

Dear Developers!

First of all, thank you very much for such an excellent program as Gnuplot is.
I used it everyday in my scientific work during more than 10 years on
Unix platform. Both standard 2-dim graphics and "pm3d" are very useful.

My only comment: sometimes it would be convenient to printout the list of files in a directory.
Really, I do it very often, many times in each gnuplot session. It can be done by escaping to shell command,
"!ls", of course.

My proposition is to include the "ls" command into the list of gnuplot standard command,
like "pwd" or "cd", for example. It would save a little time for users because they could omit "!"))).

Also, can I assign the path to search command files in gnuplot?
I have a collection of hand-written files (to generate .eps graphics, for example)
and it would be convenient to store them in one place.

Thank you very much in advance.
With the best wishes,

German Kolmakov
Swanson School of Engineering
University of Pittsburgh.