Re: New autocompletion feature

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

On Saturday 19 July 2008, Manuel Schölling wrote:

> Ethan Merritt wrote:
>  > We already have that:
>  >
>  >   plot for [i=1:3] "file".i <all your options>
> 
> This is strange. Both commands do not work here:

It is a feature in the development version (4.3).

> But nevertheless, if you use these commands you've written you don't 
> have the possibility to add further plotting options like a different 
> title for each data file.

Sure you do.  The iteration variable can be used multiple times.
Here's a trivial example:

    plot for [i=i,N] "file".i with lines title "file".i

Or, if you want custom titles:

    name = "Apples Oranges Bananas"
    plot for [i=1,3] "file".i with lines title word(name,i) 

-- 
Ethan A Merritt