[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#956751: Gnuplot 5 equivalent to clipboardformat

[Étienne Mollier]

Charles Plessy, on Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:17:47 +0900:
> mummerplot generates a gnuplot file that contains a line such as:
> 
>     set mouse clipboardformat "[%.0f, %.0f]"
> 
> Unfortunately, it triggers `wrong option` errors with gnuplot 5.

Good Day Charles,

Reading through Gnuplot 4[1] and 5[2] manual, another possible
approach could be to replace that line by the following:

	set mouse mouseformat "[%.0f, %.0f]"

Both clipboardformat and mouseformat options seem to have merged
in the move to Gnuplot 5.  Getting the current mouse position
into the clipboard with this option set in Gnuplot 5 would
require double clicking with the button 1 of the mouse in the
graph.

[1] http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.2/gnuplot.html#x1-20300043.37
[2] http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_5.2/Gnuplot_5.2.pdf

I hope this helps,
Kind Regards,
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