Re: irreversibly reversing range

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> IMHO the real problem is that placing a range in the plot command itself
>    plot ... [foo:baz] ...
> does not have an obvious meaning.

Well, actually this one has no meaning at all --- in a plot command the 
range comes first, or not at all, i.e. it must be

    plot [foo:baz] ...

And thus modified it does have a well-documented meaning (see "help plot 
ranges"): it sets the range for the duration of that plot command. 
That's been so for as long as it existed.  IMHO that should qualify as 
obvious.

If memory serves originally there was only this range option in the 
'plot' argument list.  "Set xrange" was added later, to make the command 
interface more efficient when there are lots of plots with the same range.