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Re: gnuplot tab completion of filename

From Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de>
Newsgroups comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject Re: gnuplot tab completion of filename
Date 2014-06-25 19:53 +0200
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You need the readline

If I see it right below it is not available.

Thats my toughest work at work: Make them (Sysads) to install gnuplot
WITH the readline.

Olaf



Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using gnuplot for long time, and one problem that I always feel is it is not closing the " on tab completion of filename.
> e.g.
> gnuplot> p 'fo<Tab>
> will give me:
> gnuplot> p 'fort.10 <cursor here, see the missing '>
> 
> while I would expect to have:
> gnuplot> p 'fort.10' <cursor here>
> 
> I am using the rpm from fedora, which gives:
>  show version long
> 
> 	G N U P L O T
> 	Version 4.6 patchlevel 3    last modified 2013-04-12 
> 	Build System: Linux x86_64
> 
> 	Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2013
> 	Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
> 
> 	gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info
> 	faq, bugs, etc:   type "help FAQ"
> 	immediate help:   type "help"  (plot window: hit 'h')
> Compile options:
> -READLINE  +LIBEDITLINE  +HISTORY  
> -BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY  +BINARY_DATA  
> +GD_PNG  +GD_JPEG  +GD_TTF  +GD_GIF  +ANIMATION  
> -USE_CWDRC  +X11  +X11_POLYGON  +MULTIBYTE  +X11_EXTERNAL +USE_MOUSE  +HIDDEN3D_QUADTREE  
> +DATASTRINGS  +HISTOGRAMS  +OBJECTS  +STRINGVARS  +MACROS  +IMAGE  +USER_LINETYPES +STATS 
> 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR = "/usr/libexec/gnuplot/4.6"
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR     = "/usr/share/gnuplot/4.6/PostScript"
> HELPFILE           = "/usr/share/gnuplot/4.6/gnuplot.gih"
> 
> 
> Kindly help.

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gnuplot tab completion of filename Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra@live.com> - 2014-06-25 04:45 -0700
  Re: gnuplot tab completion of filename Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2014-06-25 19:53 +0200
  Re: gnuplot tab completion of filename Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2014-06-25 20:17 +0200

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