Re: screen terminal scrolling

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:57:50 +0100, <pl...@pi...> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:22:57 +0100, <pl...@pi...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> unless I have missed something it seems there is no way to scroll a  
>> zoomed view of a plot with the on screen terminals.
>>
>> I invariably find I need to back out to a previous zoom level and  
>> redefine the zoom. I would considerably speed things up if the arrow  
>> keys allowed to scroll the same sized zoom in x or y.
>>
>> To prevent this being very slow (since it is basically a replot) it  
>> would probably be most useful to move one major tic at a time.
>>
>> If I am studying some data in detail I do want to have to break off  
>> mentally to zoom out , recall which bit I was looking at on the larger  
>> scale and then zoom back in a bit to the left.
>>
>> One keypress on the arrow keys would mean I did not even need to take  
>> my eyes off the screen.
>>
>> This would be a major plus in usability for on screen data viewing.
>>
>> Thx, Peter.
>
> Looking at this again , I wonder if it can be done with macros.
>
> It would be easy to bind something to "Left" (or whatever key is  
> prefered) but I dont see any exposed variables relating to the zoom  
> window that could be tweeked by a gnuplot command.
>
> Can anyone suggest if there is a way to adjust the current zoom window  
> parameters before calling replot?
>
> TIA. Peter.
>
>

BTW if there are no zoom variables exposed (which appears to be the case)  
what file is the zoom code in, I may try to take a look if I can find some  
of that mythical free time people sometimes refer to.

regards, Peter.