Re: clunky fn plots

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:25:15 am Juhász Péter wrote:
> 
> An idea I've just had: 
> perhaps it would be worth introducing a feature like "man -k" in *nix
> or ?? in R. 
> 
> If the user were looking for the way to do something but didn't know
> where he should look, he could use a hypothetical new "searchhelp" or
> "helpindex" command with some keyword related to his troubles, and
> gnuplot would list the relevant help topics.

Doesn't this already exist?  The same keywords and index entries 
used to generate the index in the TeX-based documentation are supposed
to be found by the "help" command also.  The usual problem, of which
the current query is a perfect example, is that the user doesn't know
what keyword to search for.  "help sample" works fine, but only if
you think of asking about "sample".

I have myself pretty much abandoned the builtin "help" in favor of
the PDF document.  It has an index, and allows searching.  It also
has figures.  But you still need a starting point.

Anyhow, suggestions for keyword/index entries are very welcome.

	Ethan

 
> 
> By the way, an answer to your original question would be
> 
> plot "datafile" using 1:2, "" using 1:(f($1))
> 
> which would evaluate your function at exactly the same points as the
> datafile.
> 
> Péter Juhász