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Changelog for gnuplot.el

Version 8.1 (Feb 18th 2023)

List of changes for gnuplot.el version 0.8.0 ranging from January 2021 to February 2023.

• Fixed the completion-at-point function
• Improve lazy loading of the gnuplot-gui library
• Remove legacy code
• Lexical scoping and linting

Version 8.0 (Jan 3rd 2021)

List of changes for gnuplot.el version 0.8.0 ranging from March 2014 to January 2021.

• Changed project license to GPLv3.
• Greatly simplify the compilation process.
• Fix deprecated calls to the cl library.
• Deprecated XEmacs support. Bump minimal GNU Emacs version to 24.3.
• Add a gnuplot-program-args variable for passing additional arguments to the gnuplot program binary.
• The gnuplot-inline-image-mode can now take three values: nil,

inline, dedicated.

• Add the gnuplot-use-context-sensitive-completion configuration option.
• Removed the gnuplot-bug-report function.
• The provided gnuplot.info manual file has been updated for gnuplot version 5.2.6.
• Add the gnuplot-program-args customization option to pass additional arguments to the gnuplot process.
• Use syntax-proprietize-rules in gnuplot buffers.
• gnuplot-context-sensitive-mode is now a normal minor mode.
• Enable completion-at-point in gnuplot comint buffers.
• Remove the unused dotemacs.el file.
• comint-process-echoes is now buffer-local.

Version 7.0 (Oct 20th 2012)

• Contextual completion & help, inline plots, some other stuff.

Version 6.0 (Dec 13th 2011)

• Changed numbering scheme to accommodate gnuplot packaging requirements.
• Moved to github, updated contact info.

Version 5.0 (Sep 16th 2002)

• Wrote initial draft of gnuplot-gui.el, included it in insertions menu and in gnuplot-insert. Negate option function, bound to C-c C-n.
• C-c C-h with no response goes to Commands menu. Transparent toolbar icons. Replace kw-compl with a simple completion function. Put gnuplot-toolbar code in gnuplot.el.
• Send file uses the load command. add gnuplot-plot-from-comint and gnuplot-save-and-plot-from-comint and keybindings in the comint buffer. do (process-kill-without-query gnuplot-process nil). gnuplot-negate-option checks if set option has a negated form.
• gnuplot-kill-gnuplot-buffer made more robust. fixed a bug in gnuplot-plot-from-comint. fixed description of gnuplot-faces group.
• Update copyright information, update gpelcard
• Change installation materials. Add some support for hidden3d. Use constants in types alists in gui. Various other minor improvements to the types alists.
• Removed gnuplot-which-highlight variable and revamped how colorization gets turned on. This is a bit tricky since I want it to work with font-lock under emacs and xemacs and with hilit19.
• Insert space at end of unique completion. add a few GUI types, rewrite some stuff in the GUI interface. primitive support for plot, splot, and fit. Fixed completion in file widget.
• Add pgnuplot.c and Win9x install instructions to the distribution. Fixed a defface bug. Added gnuplot-keywords-when allowing deferral of parsing the info file.
• Fixed font-locking of strings and comments. Figure out gnuplot-version number from startup message and set gnuplot-echo-command-line-flag accordingly. Added gnuplot-program-version variable. Check that font-lock is actually a feature.
• Added gnuplot-determine-gnuplot-version so that the gnuplot version number and comint-process-echos actually get set correctly. Actually, the first time something is plotted, the echoing might not work, but the second time it will.
• Once again changed how comint-process-echos gets set. Maybe I got it right this time? Also fixed certain situations where the info file did notget properly loaded (insertion with info toggle on and info button in GUI).
• Do a more robust check for the gnuplot process before killing the gnuplot buffer.
• Make gnuplot-send-line-and-forward skip over blank and comment lines.
• Bound C-c C-j to gnuplot-forward-script-line.
• Support for pm3d in gnuplot-gui and in plot options insertions menu. mentioned pm3d in gpelcard. gui support for x11 pm3d and vgagl terms. gnuplot-negate-option works with new syntax.
• Add colorization and gui support for new commands in 3.8. gui support for emf term. gui support for new “set style” syntax. much better scheme for determining gnuplot version number + make better use of it.
• Corrected a serious problem interacting with speedbar
• Fixed problem with toolbar creation and speedbar clicking
• Added font-lock bindings for words associated with plotting
• Bind C-c C-c to comment-region and C-c C-o to the GUI, also make C-c C-l respect continuation lines. Added feature to trim length of gnuplot process buffer.
• Yet again changed how comint-process-echos gets set. It really needs to be nil on NTEmacs 21.1 or comint gets stuck in an infinate loop.
• Fixed a problem with C-c C-v jumping forward 2 lines at a time

Version 4.0 (Dec 14th 1998)

• Use info-look for info interface. No change to gnuplot-mode user interface, but cleaner code. With info-look, the help funcion works regardless of the version number of gnuplot. Also, gnuplot-keywords (used for help, keyword-completion, and hilit19 highlighting) is now generated automatically.
• info-look leaves a couple of really useless buffers lying around so I cleaned them up. Also fixed font-lock rules so that things in quotes get highlighted correctly and the surrounding text is unhighlighted. Fixed up font-lock rules for plot and splot. Added gnuplot-send-line-and-forward.
• Added toolbar for xemacs – see file gnuplot-toolbar.el. Fixed error message in plot line function when line is empty. Option added to display the comint buffer showing the gnuplot process in a separate frame
• Fixed highlighting in comint buffer. fixed frame behavior. added “[:]” to range insertions. added :link to defgroup.
• Fixed some mismatched defcustoms. added a few lines to suppress some compile-time warnings.
• Fixed behavior of filename insertion function. Added more :links to defgroup.
• Added function gnuplot-setup-info-look and variable gnuplot-info-hook to handle various versions of the gnuplot info file.
• Split up gnuplot-insertions-menu for ease of custimization, put menubar initialization in a function.
• defcustom the insertions submenus, add gnuplot-insertion-menu-flag, intelligent Makefile knows which info-look to compile

Verison 3.0 (Sep 15th 1998)

• Include insertions menu.
• Fixed bug finding info file if missing, fixed bug starting font-lock, fixed bug re overwriting files in installation script.
• Added (require info) to eval-and-compile clause, Added (kill-all-local-variables) to gnuplot-mode, altered order of: (provide gnuplot) (run-hooks gnuplot-load-hook) at the end of the file in case something in the load hook requires gnuplot (oh not that old one again…), added gnuplot-comint-setup-hook, corrected gnuplot-mark-active which caused an error to be raised by (mark) when the mark was inactive. Some changes to font-lock rules.

Version 2.0 (Sep 11th 1998)

• Added filename insertion, indentation, and colorization/completion in comint buffer.
• Made indent-line-function buffer-local (whoops!) and fixed some stuff in the installation script

Version 1.0 (Jun 25th 1998)

• Finished with initial release.