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Author: Bruce Ravel <[email protected]>
Commit: Bruce Ravel <[email protected]>
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@@ -96,14 +96,17 @@ been modified to be consistent with that.
from Emacs 20.2 patched to work correctly and the version from
Emacs 20.3. Here's what happens when you run make:
- * If you use Emacs 19 or XEmacs 19, then the Makefile will
- compile the 20.2 version.
- * If you use Emacs 20.2 or lower, the Makefile will compile the
- 20.2 version.
- * If you use XEmacs 20 or higher, the Makefile will compile the
- 20.3 version.
- * If you use Emacs 20.3 or higher, the Makefile won't compile any
- version.
+ + If you use Emacs 19 or XEmacs 19, then the Makefile will
+ compile the 20.2 version.
+
+ + If you use Emacs 20.2 or lower, the Makefile will compile the
+ 20.2 version.
+
+ + If you use XEmacs 20 or higher, the Makefile will compile the
+ 20.3 version.
+
+ + If you use Emacs 20.3 or higher, the Makefile won't compile any
+ version.
7. The gnuplot-mode distribution comes with the version of the gnuplot
info file that gets made by gnuplot 3.7. Use it rather than the
@@ -126,11 +129,46 @@ been modified to be consistent with that.
1. Use [[http://tromey.com/elpa/][ELPA]]
- 2. Evans Winner points out that: "~make-local-hook~ seems to have
+ 2. Using gnuplot-mode on windows is problematic. John Handy says:
+
+ You probably get nagged quite a bit about this. Some have been running
into
+ issues with gnuplot-mode and Windows and I'm wondering if you have any
+ comments. I use it just fine on Linux, but it seems that Windows users are
+ not able to send data to gnuplot successfully.
+
+ Org-mode also uses gnuplot-mode and this org-plot and org-mode
babel+gnuplot
+ are not working correctly on Windows.
+
+ Any thoughts? I'm hoping to include any results in the Org-mode wiki for
+ gnuplot use:
+ http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.php
+
+ If you're interested, here are some of the threads I'm referring to:
+
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.emacs/2007-07/msg00159.html
+ http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14544.html
+
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/53489131c79f62b3
+
+ If you'd like to see my summary of the issues to the org-mode mailing
list,
+ it's here:
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/30235
+
+
+ 3. Evans Winner points out that: "~make-local-hook~ seems to have
been removed from Emacs 24. I found that it was a show-stopper
until I commented the call out -- this was line 1866 in my copy
of the source."
- 3. Jim Mehl says: "I usually put ~pause -1~ lines in my gnuplot
+ 4. Jim Mehl says: "I usually put ~pause -1~ lines in my gnuplot
scripts. I have to be careful to comment these out if I execute the
script within emacs. It just hangs. Is there a way out?"
+
+ : plot [-5:5] sin(x)/x
+ : pause -1
+ : plot [-5:5] (sin(x)/x)**2
+ : pause -1
+
+ When run in a terminal the pauses let me review the screen, then
+ proceed (like many gnuplot demo scripts). When I run this script
+ within emacs 23.1.1 with gnuplot-mode (gnuplot 4.5), emacs
+ becomes unresponsive. I cannot switch buffers. I can switch to
+ another window and kill emacs (usually undesirable).
