On 2010-01-05 15:35-0800 David MacMahon wrote: >> What's the purpose of this variable? > > It is used to specify a "default" driver that will be used if no > other driver is specified. If it is not defined and no driver is > specified, then the user is prompted with a driver list. > > For example, if I like using the xcairo driver, I could do... > > export PLPLOT_DEV=xcairo > > ...and then I wouldn't need to pass "-dev xcairo" on each command > line to use xcairo, but I could pass "-dev xxx" if I wanted to use a > different driver. > > IMHO, it's a harmless convenience.
That feature does appear to be useful, and I would be happy to receive a patch implementing that. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
