Setting a gnuplot command line option from within Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:44 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 14-Apr-2009, E. Joshua Rigler wrote:
>
> | On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com>  
> wrote:
> | >
> | > On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:17 PM, E. Joshua Rigler wrote:
> | >
> | >> I'm running Octave 3.0.4, and have the "plot" package installed  
> from
> | >> Octave Forge in order to use the ginput.m function. A One  
> problem: A I
> | >> cannot read in the 'q' character without closing the plot window.
> | >> Gnuplot seems to have a '-ctrlq' command line option that  
> forces the
> | >> user to type Ctrl-q to close an open plot window, but I'm not  
> sure how
> | >> to take advantage of this from within Octave. A Any suggestions?
> | >>
> | >> -EJR
> | >
> | > The gnuplot manual indicates you can add 1rygnuplot*ctrlq1ry to  
> A your .Xdefaults
> | > or .Xresources file and get what you want.
> | >
> | > If it works, let us know. I tried to to this on Mac OSX Leopard.  
> However, I
> | > ended up with problems running my X11.
> | >
> | > Ben
> |
> | Huh, I guess I didn't dig deep enough into the help to find that.  A
> | quick test confirms that this does what I expect, at least once I  
> call
> | xrdb to reload the X resource file.  I'll post a follow-up if I run
> | into any problems later on.   FYI, I'm running Octave on RH  
> Enterprise
> | v4, 64-bit.  Thanks for the tip.
>
> Maybe we should change the gnuplot_binary function to accept
> additional arguments that could be passed to gnuplot?
>
> jwe

I tried doing that, but got an error. Perhaps *I* made a mistake. Does  
it work for you?

Ben