Re: [Gnuplot-info] Windows gnuplot exits when you press the "Delete" key on a blank line

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Richard C. Yeh wrote:

> I'm running gnuplot 4.0 patchlevel 0 on Windows XP Professional SP1.
> 
> This is to ask if there's any way to prevent gnuplot from exiting if I 
> press the "[Forward]-Delete" key on a blank line.

Ouch, now that's a cute bug you've found there ;-)

> I suppose that this is the analog of logging out by pressing [Ctrl]-D, 

It quite definitely is.  That's how function keys receive their meaning:
by mapping them to their corresponding Emacs basic editing key, and yes,
that's Ctrl-D for the "Delete" key on PC keyboards.

The bug then is that Ctrl-D is interpreted as "End-of-File" somewhere,
which it *really* shouldn't be, and certainly not on Windows.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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