The replot
command without arguments repeats the last plot
or splot
command. This can be useful for viewing a plot with different set
options,
or when generating the same plot for several devices.
Arguments specified after a replot
command will be added onto the last
plot
or splot
command (with an implied ',' separator) before it is
repeated. replot
accepts the same arguments as the plot
and splot
commands except that ranges cannot be specified. Thus you can use replot
to plot a function against the second axes if the previous command was plot
but not if it was splot
, and similarly you can use replot
to add a plot
from a binary file only if the previous command was splot
.
N.B.---use of
plot '-' ; ... ; replot
is not recommended. gnuplot
does not store the inline data internally, so
since replot
appends new information to the previous plot
and then
executes the modified command, the '-'
from the initial plot
will expect
to read inline data again.
Note that replot
does not work in multiplot
mode, since it reproduces
only the last plot rather than the entire screen.
See also command-line-editing
for ways to edit the last plot
(splot
)
command.