Re: set key in 4.2.6

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

On Saturday 05 September 2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> I've just noticed this new behaviour in 4.2.6:
> 
> gnuplot> set key
>                 ^
>          warning: deprecated syntax, use "set key default"
> 
> 
> This was not happening until recently and neither this happens in cvs. Isn't 
> this a bug?


According to "cvs annotate set.c", it has been that way since 17-May-03.
That was six and a half years ago, even before 4.0 was released.
And I can confirm that 4.0 gives the same error message on that command.
(Yes, I have runnable executables going back to 3.7.2)