Re: help exit

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

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 02:35 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> It seems the 'help exit' does not say anything that it exits gnuplot when in 
> interactive?

There is nothing special about interactive sessions. If you would like to
clarify the help text, I suggest something like

   The commands `exit` and `quit` terminate input from the current input
   stream. This is true for terminal, pipe, and file input. If input streams
   are nested, then input will continue to be accepted from the parent
   stream.  When the top level stream is closed, the program itself will exit.



To demonstrate that "interactive" is not relevant to this, try the following:

gnuplot
plot sin(x)
load '/dev/tty'
plot cos(x)
load '/dev/tty'
plot x
exit
history
exit
hisory
exit

You will find that it takes three `exits` to get back to the shell from
this nested interactive session.



 
> What about this text:
> 
>   When running gnuplot in interactive mode, the commands `exit` and `quit`
>   quit your gnuplot session.
> 
>   When reading a command file (script), the commands `exit` and `quit` and
>   the END-OF-FILE character will exit this file immediately and `load` the
>   next one.
> 
>   See "help batch/interactive" for more details.
> 
>   Each of these commands will clear the output device (as does the `clear`
>   command) before exiting.
> 
> 
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