Re: new command: raise

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

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > > Would it be possible to configure Gnuplot's compilation so that
> > > it can figure out which terminal should be the "interactive" one?
> 
> That's clear how do you compile gnuplot.
> #ifdef OS2 => PM is interactive

Are we sure that OS2 is never #defined if somebody builds the X11 version
on OS/2?

> #ifdef X11 => X11 is interactive
> #ifdef _Windows => windows is interactive

Same here.

> I.e. you have running gnuplot or octave with gnuplot windows, now you have a
> look to a man page, then to web browser, and you want to see again all your
> plots ... so you want to raise all of them. That's what "raise" command
> helps to achieve with zero user effort.

I always thought that's what one had a window manager with multiple
(virtual) desktops for... but then again, I'm obviously spoilt by never
having had to do actual lab work on Windows or OS/2, so far.

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