MATLAB-like Vertical/Horizontal Zoom for strictly Vertical/Horizontal Drag

[zjwilliams20]

In the MATLAB figure controls, the zoom button allows me to only zoom horizontally if the mouse is moved horizontally or vertically. This is nice to have so that I don't have to drag across the vertical/horizontal extent every time I want to go to a specific spot.

I'd greatly appreciate this feature here as I use this extension for virtually all of my notebook development and find myself wanting to do this frequently. Thanks!

[ianhi]

Hi @zjwilliams20 those controls come from the matplotlib package directly, and are not somethign that really can/should be implemented in ipympl.

Can someone with the rights to transfer do so (e.g. @tacaswell ?)