Re: News in gnuplot.doc

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > Ethan has added new section "What is New in Version 4.0". I've just added
> > some items in it. Please, have a look and extend it as necessary as you
> > think.
>
> Having this section feels like a maintenance problem --- we now have to
> maintain the same information in two places, NEWS and gnuplot.doc.

No, they are different. NEWS is more or less (un)organized, with lines added
during the time development -- well, it shows progress of gnuplot.

"New" section in gnuplot.doc is a nicely written polished version of changes
from 3.7 to 4.0 with hypertext facility to the corresponding places in the
file. It is grouped by functionality, not by time.

> > I have searched some docs about using "history file", i.e.  automatic saving
> > and restoring of the command history.  Is it there or not?  I though it is,
> > but I could not find it.
>
> It's not in 'help history', which means that if it either doesn't exist,
> or it's in the wrong place.  Either way, this would have to be fixed.

I don't know whether it exists -- maybe with GNU readline? I remember it was
discussed, but don't remember the result.

> > x11.trm: It may be worth to write into docs that piping with "set mouse" can
> > be used only if pipe must be (un??)buffered, the external caller program
> > must issue a command like setmode(????, O_????).
>
> You seem to know best about it ---> you write it.

That's it, I don't know exactly how is it now -- I think Ethan is the most
informed in this matter. Can you please write a bit about that?

Maybe there can be a link from "help batch/interactive" .. and maybe also to
"pgnuplot" for windows?

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Petr Mikulik