Re: cbfix

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

> Having autoscaling
> switched on for all axes by default (so the default for all axes is
> the same) might be esthetically and conceptionally "correct" but it is
> counterintuitive.

A note of clarification: it's not actually autoscaling that's getting in 
your way there.  It's auto-extension.  Which only happens if both 
auto-scaling and auto-ticking are in operation.

> I would guess that it's far above 90% of cases where
> the colorbox range should be "cbfix".  My feeling is that the default
> autoscaling for the colorbox is rarely wanted and used. Therefore I'd
> suggest to turn the default to "set autoscale cbfix" (even though this
> breaks backwards compatibility.

I'm against breaking backward compatibility for an issue that can 
trivially be fixed by putting a line in your ~/.gnuplotrc (or other 
platform's equivalent)