Re: Plans for gnuplot version 5

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 05 March, 2014 08:22:25 pl...@pi... wrote:
> On 03/05/14 05:51, sfeam wrote:
> >   * `set axis [*:*] reverse` autoscales with inverted axis range as before
> >     but the "reverse" keyword has no effect when [min:max] is explicit.
> 
> Last year I found some oddity with regards to reversal.
> 
> I can't remember enough detail to give a reproducible example but my 
> recollection was that once it was given set axis with max<min it latched 
> into a reverse state and subsequent set axis with max>min failed to 
> revert to non-reversed axis orientation.

Yes.  That was a long-standing problem that the new syntax fixes.
See for example
  https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/317/
  
As with the other changes listed, there is a good reason for the change.
But it unfortunately has the side effect some old scripts may no longer
work as intended.