Re: [Gnuplot-info] Managing long/complicated plot commands?

[Philipp K. J. <ph...@ja...>]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:13:40 +0100
Bjorn Buckwalter <bjo...@gm...> wrote:

> HI all,

How long (in characters) are the command lines that
you are using? Mine frequently run long, and it has
never been a problem.

Is it possible that you have problems with embedded
newlines, or that something goes awry if your command
line runs into a new line in your terminal?

Best,

		Ph.

> 
> I rather often run into a problem of my plot commands being too long,
> typically resulting in a not-very-helpful error message such as:
> 
> "$plot_polar" line 21: invalid character \
> 
> It took a lot of head scratching to realize the root of the problem. I
> assume there are strong reasons for both the limitation on command
> length and the poor error message.
> 
> I cannot be the only one running into this problem. The situation
> being what it is, what are the rest of you doing to manage when you
> run up against this limit? Replacing `linecolor` with `lc`, etc, will
> only get me so far and at the expense of readability.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Bjorn
> 
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