Re: Bug or pipe issue?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:42 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > >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.
> >
> > For doing a replot without having to re-enter the data, perhaps? :-)
> 
> It would be useful. With some associated 'set ...' to switch this caching
> on/off.

Of course, the data is already present in gnuplot's internal
arrays. 

In principle a "zoom" operation wouldn't need to reread the files.
So it might be possible to implement zoom as a partial replot
that skips the step of re-reading the data and maybe other
steps in the full plot/replot pathway.


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