Re: gnuplot terminates unexpectedly

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

>On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> On 18.03.2011 10:39, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
>> >
>> > Currently the builtin readline causes gnuplot to terminate
>> > if ^D (DEL) is entered on an empty line.
>> 
>> That's been the default behaviour of Unix command line shells since the 
>> beginning of time().  Some let you change that, some don't.
>> 
>>  > Would the following
>> > trivial change have any negative side effect?
>> 
>> I suspect it would surprise some long-time users.
>
>Including me :-)
>That's what ^D is supposed to do.  It means "End of File".
>
>	Ethan


Ok. The problem is that the builtin readline maps the DEL key
to ^D on Windows. So "DEL" terminates gnuplot there. So you 
can accidentally close gnuplot while editing.

  Bastian