Re: set term screen

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

On Thursday 12 February 2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > Anyhow, what if the end user wants to use some terminal type other
> > than x11?
> 
> I was thinking how to smoothly support x11, wxt, and others, in a portable 
> way. What about:
> 
> 	set term screen ... options ...
> or
> 	set term default ... options ...
> 
> There, the "screen" terminal is that after gnuplot's start-up, i.e. that in 
> GPVAL_TERM. Then, Octave (or others) won't have to care about
> 	set term x11
> 	set term win
> 	set term aqua
> etc.; it will just do
> 	set term screen|default|other_synonym
> 
> Gnuplot will have to ensure that all "set term x11|wxt|qt|win|pm|aqua" 
> options are the same (or silently ignored if not relevant).
> 
> What do you think about it?

Don't we already have  "set termoption" for that?
It would have to be expanded to accept the size/position commands
(if they ever exist on these other terminals) but other than that
I think it does exactly what you want.  I have been thinking that
the termoption command could accept additional options anyhow.



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