Re: Changes to stable branch?

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

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>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.  
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>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.
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I tried running gnuplot from outside of X an hour or so ago and saw the 
'unknown' so got the idea.  Yes, that should be fixed.

>>I know there is some reluctance to add default mechanisms to gnuplot.  
>>Is there some way already of automatically loading a file at startup?  
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>Of course there is.  "help startup" even tells you what it is ;-)
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"startup"!  (Not "defaults".)  That's what I was looking for.  :)  Thanks.

Dan