Re: historysize

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

> I am working on a patch to have gnuplot compiled with libedit from
> NETBSD. So could the #ifdef GNUPLOT_HISTORY statements be left in
> there? This would save us some very long #ifdefs ...

If you manage to make a patch for removing that #ifdef first, then there is 
no need for them.

>>> 2. By default, the history file is not read. It can be switched on in
>>>    .gnuplot by "set historysize"
>
> How would the environment variable 'GNUPLOT_HISTORY_SIZE' fit in
> there? Could this be treated like "set historysize" in .gnuplot?

Should it be set before or after reading .gnuplot?

> Wouldn't is make sense to limit the size of 'in-memory' history
> to historysize as well? But that wouldn't work with your

is this necessary?

> approach. So how about seperate commands for enabling/disabling
> saving of history? E.g. sth. like "set history on/off".

Good idea. That GNUPLOT_HISTORY could contain "no" in this case.

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