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Re: FAQ: gnuplot vs. emacs' compile command
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: FAQ: gnuplot vs. emacs' compile command |
Date: |
12 Feb 2004 23:47:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > Did anyone actually look at this bug back in May ?
> > FYI, I have included the text at the referenced link here.
>
> What is the bug exactly?
I don't know. Dan, can you elaborate?
> My understanding is of the problem:
> when Emacs exits, gnuplot is killed because its stdout is connected to
> Emacs (i.e. it receives a SIGPIPE or SIGHUP or somesuch).
.. which emacs cannot do anything about.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
> > Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> Fellas, the gnuplot team may have found ugly emacs process bugs, see
> >> <...>
> >>
>
> > : Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> 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 <<EOS
> > : plot '-'
> > : 1 1
> > : 2 2
> > : e
> > : EOS
> > : ---- end ---
> > :
> > : sh gpaction # does the plot and returns
> > : emacs -eval '(compile "sh gpaction")' # doesn't plot, but returns
> > : emacs -eval '(shell-command "sh gpaction")' # plot, but no return
> > :
> > : For the latter, emacs is unresponsive --- it's obviously waiting for
> > : something to happen, which doesn't. Only after you terminate the
> > : gnuplot graph window (key 'q' into it), or press Ctrl-G in emacs to
> > : forcibly break out of the wait loop, it will continue.
> > :
> > : During that pause, look at the output from 'ps jx' and you'll find
> > : that gnuplot_x11 is an orphan --- i.e. it's the only surviving process
> > : in its process group. In "shell-command", emacs apparently doesn't
> > : kill it, whereas in "compile", it probably does.
> > : --
> > : Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
> > : Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
>
> > --
> > Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk
>
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk