Re: Idea: env-mapping for dataplot over pipes

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> what if it would be possible to map xrange, yrange, ..
> settings into the environment where the external
> command via popen is run? This way it would be easy
> to just fetch and deliver only the amount of data
> which is really in the display boundaries - for example
> if you magnify parts of a measure log.

Since very recently, you can
 	print GPVAL_X_MIN, GPVAL_X_MAX, GPVAL_Y_MIN, GPVAL_Y_MAX
and let your driving application to read it. See also 'help set print' and 
"bidirectional" examples on gnuplot web page.

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