Re: New autocompletion feature

[Manuel S. <man...@gm...>]

Lutz Mainbaum 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. 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.

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:

I have the data files /tmp/file[1-3] and this is the output of gnuplot:
         G N U P L O T
         Version 4.2 patchlevel 3
         last modified Mar 2008
         System: Linux 2.6.25-tuxonice-r1

         Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008
         Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

         Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
         The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/

         Send bug reports and suggestions to 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot>


Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot> plot for [i=1:3] "/tmp/file".i w l
                     ^
          ':' expected

gnuplot> plot "/tmp/file[1-3]" w l
          warning: Skipping unreadable file "/tmp/file[1-3]"
          No data in plot


I'm using Gentoo Linux with these USE flags
[I] sci-visualization/gnuplot
      Available versions:  4.2.2-r1 4.2.3-r2 {X doc emacs gd ggi latex 
pdf plotutils readline svga wxwindows xemacs}
      Installed versions:  4.2.3-r2(22:12:41 15.06.2008)(X emacs gd ggi 
latex pdf plotutils readline -doc -svga -wxwindows -xemacs)
      Homepage:            http://www.gnuplot.info/
      Description:         Command-line driven interactive plotting program


If you have a clue what's wrong here, please send me a mail.

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.


Cheers,
Manuel