Alexander Hansen wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> Luis Benet wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks for your reply Alexander, >>> >>> I use x11 as output terminal all the time. The version that i am using >>> of libedit >>> (at least through fink) is 3.0.2. >>> >>> I noticed that if i used gnuplot through qgfe, i could zoom by >>> right-clicking the >>> mouse, and got actually the correct usual behaviur. How is this possible? >>> >>> >>> >> I'm not at all sure (I've seen the same thing, though). >> >> If the problem is due to libedit, then qgfe may be providing a way to >> bypass whatever is going wrong. It seems odd to me that the mouse zoom >> issue would be associated with libedit, since that's for the text >> history and line editing. >> >> >>> I also tried your suggestion of rebuilding gnuplot, but there is no >>> improvement. >>> At some point i got the following >>> warning: >>> aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61. >>> You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not >>> guaranteed to. >>> If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system >>> entirely. >>> To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically >>> `autoreconf'. >>> >>> >>> >> That's probably harmless. >> >> >>> Could all this be something related to gcc? I have Xcode 3.0 running >>> which yields >>> gcc version 4.0.1; on the other hand, /sw/bin/gcc-4 corresponds to 4.3.3 >>> >>> >> Unlikely. Fink packages use Xcode's compilers to build unless >> specifically made not to. >> >> >>> Luis >>> >>> >> I've tried a couple of things: rebuild gnuplot with the current >> libedit, and also with the prior version. Neither fixed the zooming issue. >> >> I'm forwarding this onto the Fink developer list, because I really don't >> know what's causing the issue, nor how to fix it. One option we have >> would be to see if gnuplot's bundled "minimal readline" works (we can't >> use Fink's GNU readline because gnuplot's license is not GPL-compatible). >> >> At least going through qgfe works... >> >> > Following up on this: if I switch to the "minimal readline" bundled in > the gnuplot tarball, the zoom works for me. > > Also, I've found the following (for example) in my history file, when > switching from a build that uses libedit to one that uses either the > internal readline or our readline: > > gnuplot> set\040term\040x11 > > I wonder if somehow those stray sequences are getting passed to the x11 > terminal (and the x11-based wxt terminal, which also suffers from > this). Is the zoom history text-based, and therefore getting mangled? > > I'm inclined just to use the "minimal readline" unless anybody's got a > fix handy. > > I've updated gnuplot to 4.2.4-8, which now uses the "minimal readline" that upstream provides.
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