Re: Bug or pipe issue?

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:24 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>I just noticed that not all functions on the mouse work after doing a
>>plot from inline data.  Is this a pipe issue?
>>After, zooming can't be done.
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>It's intentional.
>In order to zoom, it needs to reread the input data.
>But if the data is in-line that is not possible.
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Oh yeah, the data needs to be re-entered. Guess I knew that and just
forgot. Maybe we should add a comment to gnuplot.doc.

>I suppose that in principle the input stream during a 
>plot '-' command could be copied to a temp file so that
>it was available for re-reading.  That might be a useful
>thing for more reasons than just mouse zooming.
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For doing a replot without having to re-enter the data, perhaps? :-)

Dan