Re: gnuplot zoom not functioning anymore in octave 2.9.10

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

It's not clear to me that we need to make this new functionality
visible from the command line at all.  The mouse zooming can call
a new internal routine with no corresponding user command.
Let's get it working first, and only then worry about whether
it is worth adding a new user command.




On Tuesday 10 April 2007 11:33, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >>>Based on what kind of oracle are to decide that the "replot" issued for 
> >>>a plot with inline data isn't *meant* to require re-entry of all the 
> >>>data?  Or re-entry of only some of them, even?
> >>>
> >>>Replot has a reasonable, well-defined and ancient meaning in gnuplot. 
> >>>I'm afraid I have to insist that a command doing a different job than 
> >>>"replot" used to do, be given a different name than "replot".
> > 
> > 
> > That I have proposed several times: "Replot". (Or: "redraw")
> 
> Oh, I sort of passed the capital R in the back of my mind as a typing mistake, 
> but yes gnuplot is case sensitive.  But I don't think it is a good idea to 
> introduce capital letter commands as there are currently none and it just isn't 
> very elegant.  (I just imagine one colleague saying to another "just type 
> replot; with a capital R".)  "redraw" would work better as a whole new command.
> 
> 
> >>A new option "autoreload" won't fly?  E.g.,
> >>
> >>   set autoreload off
> >>
> >>and the default is on, i.e., the current behavior?
> > 
> > 
> > set replot {reload|redraw}
> > or
> > set replot {reload|redraw} {both|pipe}
> 
> Yes, something like that.  That's good.  But {file|pipe|all} to cover all bases. 
>   (Avoid using a word like "both" because it implies two.  Who knows what the 
> future might bring?)
> 
> Dan
> 
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