Precise positioning/move of gradient annotator?

Hello, when one has selected an object and assigned a gradient fill, and after pressing G to select the gradient tool, the X and Y coordinates correspond the location of the shape, not the location of the gradient.  Meaning, even if I know the coordinates where I want to place the start point of the gradient annotator, I can't manually enter them.  The Info panel will show the location of the mouse pointer, but not while I hold down the mouse button while dragging the annotator, so that doesn't really help much.  It appears that you just can't select a gradient in the same way you can select an object.  If I could, I could simply use the align commands to take care of this for me, or move things relative to some point.
Oh also it seems that snapping to points or grids does not work when moving the annotator.  Nudging also does not work.  Maybe I am going about this in the wrong way?  because surely people want to have high precision with positioning their annotators? 
Something else that might be helpful is if I could move the annotator on-the-fly while also expanding it or rotating it -- with the spacebar similar to how it's done with segments and shapes.
Thanks in advance for advice!

Wow. I've been wanting to know this like forever too but three years and still no response.
Anyone?

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