Re: Changes to stable branch?

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

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 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.  

That's not what this is about.  The default terminal driver is the
mechanism that lets you just start gnuplot and 'plot x', without setting 
any terminal driver first, and have the "obviously correct" thing happen:
get a plot to X11 on Unix, to Windows GUI on MS Windows, to PM on OS/2, 
etc.  The aquaterm driver forgot to set up this default, so gnuplot would
startup with terminal 'unknown'.  That's silly.

> I know there is some reluctance to add default mechanisms to gnuplot.  
> Is there some way already of automatically loading a file at startup?  

Of course there is.  "help startup" even tells you what it is ;-)

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