It seems that the user-specific data/config directory of midnight commander 4.8.x is under $HOME/.local/share/mc and $HOME/.config/mc. However the previous version(4.7.x) is looking for $HOME/.mc. You can verify that by typing

mc -F

Personally I don't like this ...

It is very likely that the data file you are going to visualize has a one line header at the first line. Use 'every' keyword to skip the first line like this.

plot "foo.dat" every ::1 using 1:2 with lines

Similarly you can skip 2 or 3 or ...

Today's tip has only one line

git rm --cached foo.bar

I wanted to create a line plot in Octave today and saved it as a eps file. But no matter how hard I tried I simply couldn't change the font size of the plot legend. It was too small in my document. There is already much discussion about it ...

In my research work, I have to run many many times of the same program with different parameters. I wrote bash files to make my life easier. But single process of bash is very slow considering I have a decent computer with 24 cpu cores. My old way to make ...