title: Is there a gnuplot configuration file?
body: <p>I am trying to setup gnuplot so that at startup I always have the comma as datafile separator, with the following command:</p>
  <pre><code>set datafile separator &quot;,&quot;
  </code></pre>
  <p>Unfortunately, it looks like there's no concept of a <code>.gnuplotrc</code> in gnuplot. At least I didn't find anything in the man page, and I don't have <a href="https://strace.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">strace</a> on this machine so I cannot see by myself. I am tired of typing the command every time I fire up gnuplot. Does anybody have a good solution for this? Note that using <code>load</code> does not solve my issue: I would still have to type the <code>load</code> command.</p>