Re: New autocompletion feature

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

On Friday 18 July 2008 21:10:12 Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008, Lutz Maibaum wrote:
> > It would be great if one could do something like
> > 
> >   plot for (filename in test*.dat) i <all your options>
> > 
> 
> I have toyed with the idea of having an explicit string iterator that
> would do this automatically, something like
> 
>    list = system("ls *.dat")
>    plot for [FILE in list] FILE 
> 
> but it turns out to require more code than I would have guessed, and
> it didn't seem worth it since the capability is there already.

I had another look over the weekend.  Either I missed the obvious before,
or we have better support routines in place now.  In any event, the extra
code to implement this was quite small.  So I have added to CVS support
for the variant:

   plot for [ <variablename> in "string of words" ] ....

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Ethan A Merritt