Re: set term screen

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > 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).
> 
> 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.

I wonder which method is better. In your proposed case, the
	set termoption XXX
would have to be identical to
	set terminal CURRENT XXX

I have just added a patch for the proposed
	set term screen XXX
into sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2594217&group_id=2055&atid=302055

What is better? This:
	set term screen 2 title 'hello'
or
	set termopt 2 title 'hello'
?

Maybe we could also add
	set term current XXX


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