Re: <tab> key doesn't work in gnuplot command line

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

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Grigory Rubtsov wrote:

> Dear developers.
> I have always used gnuplot for scientific purposes. Recently I have installed
> gnuplot 4.0. I often use commands plot "very_long_filename.dat", but in 4.0
> <tab> key doesn't automatically insert file name, but in previous versions it
> worked. 

That's not the change to version 4.0, but the way you compiled that
broke that.  <tab> completion is a part of the GNU readline features.
If you don't compile gnuplot to use that library, it won't have <tab>
completion.


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