'set view' zscale (was: Re: Bugs in new key placement code)

[Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> That style of zooming (the <zscale> parameter of 'set view', really) is a 
> horrible hack, period.  If ever we get a chance to do it, I strongly suggest 
> we kill that feature and be done with it.

Please don't do that (at least not without replacing it with equivalent
functionality elsewhere)!  This parameter is ++useful to me, both for
day-to-day interactive use of gnuplot, for movies (with perl scripts
generating gnuplot commands to produce each frame), and for final
publication-quality figures.

ciao,

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