X-Received: by 2002:a37:983:: with SMTP id 125mr12733258qkj.496.1610295052038; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:10:52 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a25:d1c4:: with SMTP id i187mr19489457ybg.106.1610295051777; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:10:51 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:10:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7d747fb0-48ff-43c8-ab72-21a41e7f39d1n@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:547:300:da50:4c23:73f8:b97:3933; posting-account=yC8mVwkAAADuRBqBIdPVfec50l5EMdYn NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:547:300:da50:4c23:73f8:b97:3933 References: <7d747fb0-48ff-43c8-ab72-21a41e7f39d1n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Select data points in interactive terminal From: Gavin Buxton Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:10:52 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 14 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:4384 On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 1:44:44 PM UTC-5, jindi.li wrote: > Dig deeper in this forum, I find a similar discussion quite long time ago= , any one knows how it's going or is some body working on that feature ?=20 >=20 > Is it possible to select a point on a graph and get its exact coordinates= (as they appear in data file)=20 > https://groups.google.com/g/comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot/c/OlWN-EmQCLM/m/8k= U5_ahFJVsJ Sorry, I don't have an answer other than to say when I do it I just zoom in= on a point until the axis are really narrow and then middle click button (= at least on linux) puts a point there with the numbers. Not exactly what yo= u are looking for, but its what I do. P.S. Not too sure I'd want gnuplot messing with my data files to be honest.