Re: [Gnuplot-info] continued lines in Emacs gnuplot-mode

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Wednesday, 05 March 2014 12:59:17 PM Dima Kogan wrote:

> Hi Elias. The gnuplot emacs interface in the gnuplot distribution is out
> of date. A very updated mode is here:
> 
>  https://github.com/bruceravel/gnuplot-mode
> 
> You should patch that tree (if it doesn't have your fixes already).
> 
> Ethan and co: this came up last year, but we didn't do anything about
> it. Can we either remove the gnuplot emacs mode from the CVS tree (since
> it's maintained in github already), or make it obvious that the
> gnuplot.el hosted HERE is a mirror rather than the upstream?
 
> dima

I would be happy to remove it.
But I didn't feel comfortable making that decision myself because
I am not an emacs user and have no feel for who would be
inconvenienced or otherwise unhappy if it disappears.

Could you write up a short paragraph for the documentation,
the FAQ, and the README explaining what gnuplot-mode is,
who might want to use it, and where to find it?

	thanks,

		Ethan


> Elias Assmann <eli...@gm...> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In gnuplot-mode, ‘gnuplot-send-line-to-gnuplot’ (C-c C-l) helpfully 
> > searches forward to the end of a continued line.  However, I thought it 
> > would be even more helpful to also search backward to the beginning of 
> > the logical line.
> >
> > So below, you will find a version of the function that does that.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > 	Elias
> >
> >
> > PS: My knowledge of Emacs Lisp is very incomplete …
> >
> > PPS: gnuplot-mode redefines C-m to newline-and-indent.  This makes it 
> > awkward to get a newline without any indention.  In my experience, most 
> > Emacs modes use C-j for “smart newline” (whatever that may mean in the 
> > mode's context) but leave C-m to mean plain newline.
>