>>>>> "Andrej" == Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> writes:
Andrej> This is because maxima does not use pipes to communicate with gnuplot.
Andrej> I wrote a patch for plot.lisp which fixes this
Andrej> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/12271/)
Andrej> but there was no reply from the list and I stopped working on it.
I think this is a nice feature of gnuplot.
By using pipes, does that mean you have to close the plot before
continuing to do work with maxima? If so, maxima used to work this
way, but someone changed it so you could leave the plot around and
still continue to work with maxima.
Ray