Turn auto-ticks on automatically for zoom mode?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

I'm working with an application right now that manually places tick 
marks for axes.  When a plot with manual tics is zoomed, typically the x 
and y axes don't have any tick marks on screen because the manually 
placed tics are outside the view.  Or maybe it is just one tick visible, 
but one tick really isn't helpful for judging dimension.

What are people's thoughts on forcing auto-ticks to "on" when going into 
zoom mode?  I recall a discussion from many years ago about zooming done 
in the outboard driver without the aid of gnuplot-core plotting, and one 
of the reasons it was a no-go was because doing zooming that way didn't 
create new tick marks and left plot symbols overly large, etc.  That's 
pretty much the same scenario with manual tick placement.  Zooming is a 
random thing, so there's no way the person who places the manual ticks 
can anticipate what adequate annotation might be.

Dan