Re: wxt term + osx

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

On Saturday, 29 August, 2015 01:48:58 Jun T. wrote:
> 
> 2015/08/28 04:41, Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
> 
> > Patch 1 prevents "pause mouse" from returning prematurely
> 
> With this patch "pause mouse" works now on my Mac. Thanks.

Thanks for confirming.  I will add the patches to CVS for 5.0 and 5.1

> But if I hit ^C in the console before closing the wxt window
> then gnuplot hangs. Is the SIGINT handler at the end of
> wxt_gui.cpp also used in the mono-threaded case?

During normal operation, yes.  
However there is some funny business at the top of the the wxt_atexit()
code that involves resetting sigint handling and is only executed in
multi-threaded mode. I do not know if this is relevant to what you are
seeing.

> And --persist (without pause mouse) still doesn't work, for example
> 
> $ echo 'set term wxt;plot sin(x)' | gnuplot -d -p
> 
> quits immediately after opening the plot window. This may be due to
> that the forked child (without exec) does not work well on Mac.
> I guess supporting --persist on Mac would be rather difficult.

I can't reproduce either of these problems on linux, so I think I
will have to leave exploration of possible fixes to someone with
an OSX system to experiment on.

	Ethan