Re: set term screen

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

Ad "set termopt" -- I think there are problems:

gnuplot> set term x11 title 'hello'
Terminal type set to 'x11'
Options are ' nopersist title "hello"'

gnuplot> set termopt dashed

gnuplot> show term

   terminal type is x11  nopersist dashed

=> thus it has forgotten the title!


> > > > 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
> 
> 
> Let's go back to the beginning.
> What exactly is the problem that is being solved?

User/script writes in a portable and elegant way:
	set term screen title 'hello'
	set term screen 4
	set term screen 5 size 400,400
instead of
	term_startup=GPVAL_TERM
        ...
	eval('set term '.term_startup.' title "hello"')
	eval('set term '.term_startup.' 4')
	eval('set term '.term_startup.' 5 size 400,400')
	

> What is it that you want to do with this saved terminal?
> Something different from "set term push" ?

You can push whichever terminal you like; however, the screen terminal stays 
the same.

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