Eric Larson

I can look shortly

Yes improving the docstring would be good!

It would be great to remove as much custom code as possible so it might be worth starting with that as a first step, then trying the layer / precedence...

@drammock I marked for 1.8, this is probably a blocker right?

Yeah backporting seems okay!

I looked at the examples and reports and they look great, thanks @drammock !

Changing the plotting functions to allow multiple unit types per channel type is doable but I suspect will be (very) hard to get right. In the meantime, a potential in-between...

> The downside to this is that the native values stored by Eyelink are px and au, so plotting won't work well out of the box. They will have to...

Have you considered using the more general API from https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues/9609 ? It encompasses what you want I think, and is already only a few lines (in principle) to implement. It...

> I think it would be a big improvement to both the user and developer experiences if the default in all of these cases was a string representing the flavor...