Re: Turn auto-ticks on automatically for zoom mode?

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

On 04/11/2017 07:34 AM, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>> Some observations:
>>>
>>> * I see that the "help zoom" documentation indicates "Zooming is usually
>>> accomplished by holding down the left mouse button".  For me it is the
>>> left mouse button.
>>
>> I meant to write for me it is the _right_ button.
>
> It depends on hand - for me it is most frequently the left mouse button.
> So that might be better to write "with mouse button 3" as later in the
> same text.
>
>> However, there is nothing in the documentation that suggests what or
>> where the "option" refers to...  OK, after looking around a bit, I see
>> that the options refer to "mouse".  It might be nice to mention in the
>> documentation that this refers to an option for "mouse".
>
> Would you prefer to start "help zoom" by "Zooming by mouse is usually
> accomplished by ..."?

Maybe something like adding

  See 'set mouse' for options.

at the end of the entry.  This comes about because users are allowed to 
shortcut some of the documentation entries.  Technically it should be 
"help set mouse zoom", I guess.  But "help zoom" takes one there too. 
It's analogous to an HTML-based online manual/help page with no backward 
links, i.e., How did I get here?

Another example is "help set mouse input".  Here's a case where there is 
no shortcut, i.e., no "help input", yet the documentation indicates

"
gnuplot> help mouse input
  [snip]
  See also the command `set mouse`.
"

when the "mouse" is a requisite, e.g., "help mouse input" is the 
shortest path.

Dan