Re: problems zooming into plot region

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On 09/25/12 13:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:02 AM, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
>>> On 09/24/12 16:58, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious whether I'm the only one experiencing this problem or if
>>>> this appears to be "a feature" rather than a bug in the eyes of
>>>> developers.
>>>>
>>>> If I use
>>>>      plot [0:] 'datafile.dat' ...
>>>> then I'm unable to zoom into the desired region of a plot with a mouse
>>
>> Bug or feature or historical happenstance, this long-standing behavior has
>> now changed in the CVS version since about 10 days ago.  Please try it out
>> and see if it now behaves more agreeably.
>
> Thank you very much for the hint. I didn't know about that change and
> it actually works much better than in previous versions.
>
>> I would like to hear some
>> feedback about whether the change is good or bad before deciding whether
>> to keep it that way for an eventual release in 4.8/5.0.
>
> To me it was a huge improvement. I'll use the trunk version for a
> while to see if I spot any other problems, but from the first
> impressions I would give a strong vote to keep the new behaviour.
>

Yes, I also find this to be a lot better than the old behaviour. It 
seems obvious if I am trying to set the zoom with the mouse, that I do 
want to do that. Not only is it very disrouting when one axis does not 
change as expected, it meant the user can't control zoom manually which 
is unhelpful.

regards, Peter.