Re: New autocompletion feature

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

On Friday 18 July 2008 15:23:34 Lutz Maibaum wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2008 14:31:20 Manuel Schölling wrote:
> > So I implemented an auto completion feature for this, so you can use it
> > like this:
> >
> > plot "" <all your options>
> >        ^ place cursor here and press <tab>
> > result:
> > plot "file1" <all your options>,
> >   "file2" <all your options>,
> >   "file3" <all your options>
> 
> I have no answer to your question, but your email reminded me of a feature 
> that I think would be very nice to have, the support of wildcards in 
> filenames. For example, the gnuplot command
> 
>   plot "file[1-3]" <all your options>
> 
> would expand to what you suggest. This approach would also work in scripts, 
> whereas your implementation seems to work only in interactive gnuplot 
> sessions.

We already have that:

   plot for [i=1:3] "file".i <all your options>




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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742