[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60354] Permanent switching of gnuplot terminals & executables

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60354 (project octave):

IIUC, you are describing known behavior.

See section "15.1 Introduction to Plotting" in the manual:
https://octave.org/doc/v6.2.0/Introduction-to-Plotting.html#Introduction-to-Plotting
> *Note:* The gnuplot graphics toolkit uses the third party program gnuplot
for plotting. The communication from Octave to gnuplot is done via a one-way
pipe. This has implications for performance and functionality. Performance is
significantly slower because the entire data set, which could be many
megabytes, must be passed to gnuplot over the pipe. Functionality is
negatively affected because the pipe is one-way from Octave to gnuplot. Octave
has no way of knowing about user interactions with the plot window (be it
resizing, moving, closing, or anything else). It is recommended not to
interact with (or close) a gnuplot window if you will access the figure from
Octave later on.

I don't know whether there is an open report about this already. In any case,
I don't know if it makes sense to keep a report open because there is little
we can do to change this.


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