Re: Changes to stable branch?

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

Per Persson wrote:

> Maybe I missed something, but I thought that the reason for branching 
> the sources was that there would be a bugfix release of gnuplot 4.0 at 
> some point in the future.
> My question was if changing the default terminal was something that 
> you'd like to see in a bugfix release. 


I haven't been following, sorry.  How does this default work?  It seems 
to me that a "default terminal" is something that the user should be 
able to configure without having to recompile anything.  I know there is 
some reluctance to add default mechanisms to gnuplot.  Is there some way 
already of automatically loading a file at startup?  For example, an 
environment variable

GNUPLOTLOADFILE = "/myhomedirectory/.gnuplotstartup"

or some such thing.  (And then add command line documentation under 
"help load" or "help defaults" about building a startup load file.)

Dan