From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FAQ: gnuplot vs. emacs' compile command Date: 12 Feb 2004 15:43:56 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <871xz7jrk0.fsf@jidanni.org> <87d6iqhz62.fsf@jidanni.org> <87addrv76t.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076595674 4230 80.91.224.253 (12 Feb 2004 14:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Jacobson , arafune@debian.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 15:21:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArHiA-00070E-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArHiA-0007al-00 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArHco-0002wM-PA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArHci-0002vu-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArHc9-0002sY-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:15:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArH8T-0007D6-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:44:09 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 17573 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 13:44:07 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 13:44:07 -0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87addrv76t.fsf@jidanni.org> Original-Lines: 50 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19883 Did anyone actually look at this bug back in May ? FYI, I have included the text at the referenced link here. Dan Jacobson writes: > Fellas, the gnuplot team may have found ugly emacs process bugs, see > <...> > : Dan Jacobson wrote: : : > Using emacs -eval '(compile "make")' : > With: echo "plot 'file';pause -1"|gnuplot -persist : > just flashes the graph for a split second. : : So let's get into dissecting this further. The first candidate to : remove is 'make'. It doesn't really do anything useful in this whole : setup, so we might as well get rid of it. Let's replace it by a shell : script doing the same things. And while at it, let's get rid of the : separate data file, too: : : --- gpaction --- : gnuplot -persist <