[Gnuplot-info] set palette maxcolors different behavior in 5.0?

[Patrick A. <pat...@Co...>]

I am trying to use 'set palette maxcolors 5" with the "moreland.pal"
palette file found at: http://www.gnuplotting.org/data/moreland.pal.

Using the script:
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set pm3d map
load 'moreland.pal'
set palette maxcolors 5
splot x+y
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In gnuplot 4.6, this makes a nice discrete-color plot as intended.
However in v5.0 the plot has a continuum of colors regardless of the
"maxcolors" setting.

In 5.0, set palette maxcolors does work for the default palette, but not
moreland. Is there a reason why this is disabled for moreland palette?