Bug#681646: gnuplot: somtimes forgets previous command (can't see it in history either)

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: gnuplot
Version: 5.2.5+dfsg1-1
Followup-For: Bug #681646


This is still a bug in current gnuplot 5.2.5, albeit with a bit different
behaviour.

Example:

...
Terminal type is now 'wxt'
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> plot x
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x     # No 'plot x'
gnuplot> plot 2*x
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> plot 2*x
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
    3   a=5;plot x
    4   plot 2*x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
    3   a=5;plot x
    4   plot 2*x
    5   a=5;plot x
    6   a=5;plot x
    7   a=5;plot x
    8   a=5;plot x
gnuplot> plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> a=5;plot x
gnuplot> plot x
gnuplot> plot x
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
    3   a=5;plot x
    4   plot 2*x
    5   a=5;plot x
    6   a=5;plot x
    7   a=5;plot x
    8   a=5;plot x
    9   a=5;plot x     # No 'plot x'
   10   a=5;plot x
   11   a=5;plot x     # No 'plot x'     # No 'plot x'
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
    3   a=5;plot x
    4   plot 2*x
    5   a=5;plot x
    6   a=5;plot x
    7   a=5;plot x
    8   a=5;plot x
    9   a=5;plot x
   10   a=5;plot x
   11   a=5;plot x    # No 'history'
gnuplot> history
    1   a=5;plot x
    2   plot 2*x
    3   a=5;plot x
    4   plot 2*x
    5   a=5;plot x
    6   a=5;plot x
    7   a=5;plot x
    8   a=5;plot x
    9   a=5;plot x
   10   a=5;plot x
   11   a=5;plot x    # No 'history'
gnuplot> q
user at debian:~/Downloads$ cat ~/.gnuplot
.gnuplot_history  .gnuplot-wxt      
user at debian:~/Downloads$ cat ~/.gnuplot_history 
_HiStOrY_V2_
a=5;plot\040x
plot\0402*x
a=5;plot\040x
plot\0402*x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
a=5;plot\040x
q
user at debian:~/Downloads$ 




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii  gnuplot-x11 [gnuplot-nox]  5.2.5+dfsg1-1

gnuplot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnuplot suggests:
ii  gnuplot-doc  5.2.5+dfsg1-1

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