Re: New autocompletion feature

[Lutz M. <lut...@gm...>]

On Friday 18 July 2008 15:46:27 Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008 15:23:34 Lutz Maibaum wrote:
> > 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.

> >   plot "file[1-3]" <all your options>

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

Thanks, Ethan, I didn't know about plot iterations. It seems like they are 
limited to integers, are there any plans to allow iterations over string 
lists? It would be great if one could do something like

  plot for (filename in test*.dat) i <all your options>

or at least

  plot for (filename in `ls test*.dat`) i <all your options>

Right now it seems like I would have to do something like

  list="`ls test*.dat`"
  plot for [i=1:words(list)] word(list,i)

which actually does not work, since calling ls through backticks generates 
a list with only a single item in it:

gnuplot> !ls test*.dat
test1.dat  test2.dat
gnuplot> list="`ls test*.dat`"
gnuplot> print word(list,1)
test1.dattest2.dat

  -- Lutz