Hi, Igor asked for comments on gnuplot, although he wanted them to be about functionality. Sorry for not replying directly to this mail, i just subscribed to this list.
Now i got something concerning the interface. I am completely happy with the command line, only one thing bothers me: i miss the expansion of file names. As the help says, gnuplot has its own readline function. But it doesn't expand the file names on my system. The GNU readline can be compiled in, but isn't in the debian package, as can be seen in the package source (--without-gnu-readline in gnuplot-4.00/debian/rules). This is quite bad for me because usually the names of my data files are very long. My question is if i missed some configuration somewhere for the expansion (some keyboard thing?). Or, if i didn't, if there is a specific reason for the package being built without GNU readline support. What i did is to apt-get the package source, change --without-gnu-readline into --with-readline=gnu and build my own gnuplot package, so i am fine. But i guess that it might be annoying for people who haven't investigated in this, because it was for me until i finally decided to solve this problem by building my own package. Thanks. Lothar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
