What should "set key outside above right" do?

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Hi.

I'd like a plot with the legend sitting outside the plot, above the
top-right. Like this:

            window
---------------------------------
|                               |
|                               |
|                               |
|                     legend    |
|  -------------------------    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |         plot          |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  -------------------------    |
|                               |
|                               |
|                               |
---------------------------------


If we set a square aspect ratio, then the plot doesn't fill the window,
and there's a lot of empty space. This isn't a problem in itself (and
gnuplot doesn't control the window size, so it can't "fix" it), but it
looks like the legend attaches itself to the corner of the window
instead of the corner of the plot, which looks very strange: there's a
huge gap between the plot and the legend. I get this:


            window
---------------------------------
|                         legend|
|                               |
|                               |
|                               |
|  -------------------------    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |         plot          |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  |                       |    |
|  -------------------------    |
|                               |
|                               |
|                               |
---------------------------------

I'm hesitant to call this a "bug", but this feels wrong. Am I just
giving it incorrect commands? Demo script:

  set key outside above right
  set size ratio -1
  plot x/10


Thanks