Re: "Bind all <key> <command>" patch on SourceForge

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:50 pm, Jacques Bouchard wrote:
> > 
> > File wait_for_End would contain two lines:
> >    pause -1
> >    if (!DONE) reread
> 
> That fits exactly my need.

I am glad to hear that it works for your application.
It is a bit ugly, however, since it burns a lot of CPU
cycles in that wait loop (the "pause -1" returns immediately,
as you already know, and so the loop is very tight). 
I hope someone can think of a better way.

> Nice thing to write in a gnuplot HOWTO.

One thing at a time.  I think there is more work to do on
this patchset before it is ready for documentation and 
inclusion in the main source tree.  I do not understand
the details of what goes wrong with the "pause" command
in your example, and without understanding it is hard to
develop a fix.


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