From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 72778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72778: 31.0.50; Calc: g f doesn't display gnuplot window after closing
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:32:19 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bk1fx1n8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cylxywu1.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:51:02 +0200")
[ஞாயிறு ஆகஸ்ட் 25, 2024] Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> IME, gnuplot is notorious in changing its non-interactive behavior
>> from time to time, which might break the assumptions that Calc makes.
>> Suggest to look in the gnuplot's change log to see if they made some
>> change in the recent years, maybe this will give some ideas.
>
> I'm too ignorant to know what to look for.
>
> Some more data points, though:
>
> - In *Gnuplot Trail* I see that gnuplot receives the command and emits
> a new prompt even when the command is ignored.
>
> - Executing (calc-gnuplot-command "set term wxt") (be sure that it is
> not ignored!) fixes the problem for me. I guess we don't want to do
> that.
>
> - I can't reproduce the issue with a terminal emulator even when
> changing the gnuplot terminal to x11 (this is what Emacs uses for its
> gnuplot process).
>
> I don't know much about process communication, excuse me if this is all
> irrelevant.
I am ignorant about process communication but I was able to reliably
make gnuplot open the terminal window every time by sending an extra
newline before the plot command. Try
M-: (process-send-string (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) "\nplot sin(x)\n") RET
in the *Gnuplot Trail* buffer. If you kill the gnuplot terminal window,
and reeval the same sexp, it opens again. A naïve fix employing this
method would be
diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc-graph.el b/lisp/calc/calc-graph.el
index fb817b1bc3d..7b1ebc9f603 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc-graph.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc-graph.el
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ calc-gnuplot-command
"Send ARGS to Gnuplot.
Returns nil if Gnuplot signaled an error."
(calc-graph-init)
- (let ((cmd (concat (mapconcat 'identity args " ") "\n")))
+ (let ((cmd (concat "\n" (mapconcat 'identity args " ") "\n")))
(or (calc-graph-w32-p)
(accept-process-output))
(with-current-buffer calc-gnuplot-buffer
But it would be better if someone can explain why we require this
newline before CMD too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-26 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-24 5:49 bug#72778: 31.0.50; Calc: g f doesn't display gnuplot window after closing Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-24 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-24 7:00 ` Visuwesh
2024-08-24 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-25 5:51 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-26 6:02 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2024-08-26 19:32 ` Pip Cet via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-28 9:01 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-28 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-31 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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