changelog update

This emulates the while(<>) syntax in perl, and makes self-plotting data files
work again. These have been broken since that syntax was taken away in
4cfcf0fc35

Changes

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+feedgnuplot (1.43)
+
+  * Added --image
+
+ -- Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>  Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:12:38 -0700
+
+feedgnuplot (1.42)
+
+  * Data can now come from STDIN or files on the cmdline.
+    This fixes a regression. Self-plotting data files work again
+
+ -- Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>  Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:38:47 -0700
+
 feedgnuplot (1.41)
 
   * Histograms: --xlen can coexist with --xmin/--xmax

bin/feedgnuplot

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use Text::ParseWords; # for shellwords
 use Pod::Usage;
 use Time::Piece;
 
-my $VERSION = 1.41;
+my $VERSION = 1.43;
 
 my %options;
 interpretCommandline();
@@ -41,17 +41,10 @@ my $last_replot_time = [gettimeofday];
 
 # whether the previous replot was timer based
 my $last_replot_is_from_timer = 1;
-
-
-my $prev_timed_replot_time = [gettimeofday];
 my $this_replot_is_from_timer;
-my $stdin    = IO::Handle->new();
-die "Couldn't open STDIN" unless $stdin->fdopen(fileno(STDIN),"r");
-my $selector = IO::Select->new( $stdin );
 
 
 
-mainThread();
 
 
 
@@ -116,13 +109,13 @@ sub interpretCommandline
              'style=s{2}', 'curvestyle=s{2}', 'curvestyleall=s', 'styleall=s', 'with=s', 'extracmds=s@', 'set=s@', 'unset=s@',
              'square!', 'square_xy!', 'hardcopy=s', 'maxcurves=i', 'monotonic!', 'timefmt=s',
              'equation=s@',
+             'image=s',
              'histogram=s@', 'binwidth=f', 'histstyle=s',
              'terminal=s',
              'rangesize=s{2}', 'rangesizeall=i', 'extraValuesPerPoint=i',
              'help', 'dump', 'exit', 'version',
              'geometry=s') or exit 1;
 
-
   # handle various cmdline-option errors
   if ( $options{help} )
   {
@@ -427,6 +420,27 @@ sub interpretCommandline
       }
     }
   }
+
+  # deal with --image. I just fill in --equation, and reverse the y extents if
+  # none are explicitly given
+  if( defined $options{image} )
+  {
+      # images generally have the origin at the top-left instead of the
+      # bottom-left, so given nothing else, I flip the y axis
+      if( !defined $options{ymin} && !defined $options{ymax} &&
+          ! any { /^ *yrange\b/ } @{$options{set}} )
+      {
+          push @{$options{set}}, "yrange [:] reverse";
+      }
+
+      if ( ! -r $options{image} )
+      {
+          die "Couldn't read image '$options{image}'";
+      }
+
+      push @{$options{equation}}, qq{"$options{image}" binary filetype=auto flipy with rgbimage};
+      delete $options{image};
+  }
 }
 
 sub getGnuplotVersion
@@ -479,16 +493,66 @@ sub makeDomainNumeric
 }
 
 
+my $prev_timed_replot_time = [gettimeofday];
+my $pipe_in;
+my $selector;
+my $line_number = 0;
+my $is_stdin = !@ARGV; # read stdin only if no data files given on the cmdline
+sub openNextFile
+{
+    my $fd;
+    if($is_stdin)
+    {
+        $fd = IO::Handle->new();
+        $fd->fdopen(fileno(STDIN), "r") or die "Couldn't open STDIN";
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        my $filename = shift @ARGV;
+        $fd = IO::File->new($filename, "r") or die "Couldn't open file '$filename'";
+    }
+
+    my $selector = IO::Select->new( $fd );
+    return ($fd, $selector);
+}
 sub getNextLine
 {
+    sub getline_internal
+    {
+        while(1)
+        {
+            my $line = $pipe_in->getline();
+            if( !$is_stdin && !defined $line && $pipe_in->eof() && @ARGV)
+            {
+                # I got to the end of one file, so open the next one (which I'm
+                # sure exists)
+                ($pipe_in, $selector) = openNextFile();
+                next;
+            }
+            return $line;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+
+
+
+    if( !defined $pipe_in )
+    {
+        ($pipe_in, $selector) = openNextFile();
+    }
+
     while(1)
     {
         $this_replot_is_from_timer = undef;
 
         # if we're not streaming, or we're doing triggered-only replotting, simply
         # do a blocking read
-        return $stdin->getline()
+        if (! $options{stream} || $options{stream} < 0)
-          if (! $options{stream} || $options{stream} < 0);
+        {
+            $line_number++;
+            return getline_internal();
+        }
 
 
         my $now = [gettimeofday];
@@ -503,7 +567,8 @@ sub getNextLine
 
         if ($selector->can_read($time_remaining))
         {
-            return $stdin->getline();
+            $line_number++;
+            return getline_internal();
         }
     }
 }
@@ -773,7 +838,7 @@ sub mainThread
       }
       else
       {
-        $domain[0] = $.;
+        $domain[0] = $line_number;
         $domain0_numeric = makeDomainNumeric( $domain[0] );
       }
 
@@ -1082,6 +1147,9 @@ sub pushPoint
 }
 
 
+mainThread();
+
+
 =head1 NAME
 
 feedgnuplot - General purpose pipe-oriented plotting tool
@@ -1683,6 +1751,17 @@ times.
 
 =item
 
+C<--image filename>
+
+Overlays the data on top of a raster image given in C<filename>. This is passed
+through to gnuplot via C<--equation>, and is not interpreted by C<feedgnuplot>
+other than checking for existence. Usually images have their origin at the
+top-left corner, while plots have it in the bottom-left corner instead. Thus if
+the y-axis extents are not specified (C<--ymin>, C<--ymax>, C<--set 'yrange
+...'>) this option will also flip around the y axis to make the image appear
+properly. Since this option is just a passthrough to gnuplot, finer control can
+be achieved by passing in C<--equation> and C<--set yrange ...> directly.
+
 C<--equation xxx>
 
 Gnuplot can plot both data and symbolic equations. C<feedgnuplot> generally
@@ -1801,16 +1880,15 @@ is possible to send the output produced this way to gnuplot directly.
 
 C<--exit>
 
-This controls the details of what happens when the input data is exhausted, or
+This controls what happens when the input data is exhausted, or when some part
-when some part of the C<feedgnuplot> pipeline is killed. This option does
+of the C<feedgnuplot> pipeline is killed. This option does different things
-different things depending on whether C<--stream> is active, so read this
+depending on whether C<--stream> is active, so read this closely.
-closely.
 
 With interactive gnuplot terminals (qt, x11, wxt), the plot windows live in a
 separate process from the main C<gnuplot> process. It is thus possible for the
 main C<gnuplot> process to exit, while leaving the plot windows up (a caveat is
-that such decapitated windows aren't interactive). To be clear, there are 3
+that such decapitated windows aren't interactive). There are 3 possible states
-possible states:
+of the polotting pipeline:
 
 =over
 
@@ -1825,35 +1903,35 @@ prompt available
 
 =back
 
-The C<--exit> option controls the details of this behavior. The possibilities
+The possibilities are:
-are:
 
 =over
 
-=item No C<--stream>, input pipe is exhausted (all data read in)
+=item No C<--stream>, all data read in
 
 =over
 
-=item default; no C<--exit>
+=item no C<--exit> (default)
 
 Alive. Need to Ctrl-C to get back into the shell
 
 =item C<--exit>
 
 Half-alive. Non-interactive prompt up, and the shell accepts new commands.
-Without C<--stream> the goal is to show a plot, so a Dead state is not useful
+Without C<--stream> the goal is to show a plot, so a Dead state would not be
-here.
+useful.
 
 =back
 
-=item C<--stream>, input pipe is exhausted (all data read in) or the
+=item C<--stream>, all data read in or the C<feedgnuplot> process terminated
-C<feedgnuplot> process terminated
 
 =over
 
-=item default; no C<--exit>
+=item no C<--exit> (default)
 
-Alive. Need to Ctrl-C to get back into the shell
+Alive. Need to Ctrl-C to get back into the shell. This means that when making
+live plots, the first Ctrl-C kills the data feeding process, but leaves the
+final plot up for inspection. A second Ctrl-C kills feedgnuplot as well.
 
 =item C<--exit>
 
@@ -1948,11 +2026,21 @@ in a Thinkpad.
 
 =head2 Plotting points on top of an existing image
 
-This can be done by using C<--equation> to pass arbitrary plot input to gnuplot:
+This can be done with C<--image>:
+
+ $ < features_xy.data
+   feedgnuplot --points --domain --image "image.png"
+
+or with C<--equation>:
 
  $ < features_xy.data
    feedgnuplot --points --domain
-     --equation '"image.png" binary filetype=png flipy with rgbimage'
+     --equation '"image.png" binary filetype=auto flipy with rgbimage'
+     --set 'yrange [:] reverse'
+
+The C<--image> invocation is a convenience wrapper for the C<--equation>
+version. Finer control is available with C<--equation>.
+
 
 Here an existing image is given to gnuplot verbatim, and data to plot on top of
 it is interpreted by feedgnuplot as usual. C<flipy> is useful here because

completions/bash/feedgnuplot

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ complete -W               \
     --set                 \
     --unset               \
     --equation            \
+    --image               \
     --geometry            \
     --hardcopy            \
     --help                \

completions/zsh/_feedgnuplot

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ _arguments -S
     '*--set[Additional 'set' gnuplot commands]:set-option'                        \
     '*--unset[Additional 'unset' gnuplot commands]:unset-option'                  \
     '*--equation[Raw symbolic equation]:equation'                                 \
+    '--image[Image file to render beneath the data]:image'                        \
     '--square[Plot data with square aspect ratio]'                                \
     '--square_xy[For 3D plots, set square aspect ratio for ONLY the x,y axes]'    \
     '--hardcopy[Plot to a file]:filename'                                         \