Re: Terminal settings saved where they shouldn't

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > It produces two identical, coloured, eps figures. I would prefer that a
> > terminal starts with its default settings when it is chosen after another
> > terminal type.
>
> I would prefer that the current settings are kept.

The current behaviour was intentionally forced to work before 4.0 release.


> > If I want to restore the old settings I can use
> > 'set term push' and 'set term pop' (BTW: gnuplot does not find these
> > command in the help).

I'll add it to docs.

> Do these actually work?

Sure, I use them often.


> bind "P" 'set term post color solid; set output "| lpr"; replot; set term x11'
>
> Now I have a print key in X11.  But it's really annoying if using that
> print key changes what is next shown on the x11 plot window.

Yes, that was the main reason.


> bind "p" 'set term push; set term post color solid; set output "| lpr"; replot; set term pop'
>
> does not work.  It produces a corrupt output stream.
> Adding in another 'set output' does not help.
>
> Did this ever work?

I think you want this:

bind "p" 'set term post color solid; set output "a.ps"; replot; set out; set
term pop'


Note -- don't use "set term push" for restoring the *default* startup
terminal -- that's done automatically on gnuplot startup.


> I'd say first fix push/pop, including making sure they work recursively.

"set term pop" plays with the command line; everything behind it gets
ignored, e.g.
	set term pop; plot x
=> no plot appears


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