Re: x11.trm terminal options

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:

>garbage in -> garbage out.
>But a warning message would be OK.  At least in the above
>case it echoes back the actual state that was set.  In your
>earlier example "set term X11 3 'Times-Roman'" it failed to
>echo back the state.  It is that failure that I consider a bug,
>not the fact that it accepted the 3 but rejected the font.
>

And what of "reset"?  I think as it is "set term x11 reset noraise 19"
is different than "set term x11 noraise 19 reset" because the order
of appearance matters.  I think it would be better that options have
a precedence say

"reset"  (first)
number (second)
order of remaining options doesn't really matter

That is, the user would be able to enter them in any order but they will
be processed in order above.  That would be changing Gnuplot's
behavior a bit, but I don't think users have come to realize that
order matters in the x11 options string.

Dan




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