Re: bring back gset

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote:

> Just my 2¢ on the gset -> __gnuplot_set__ -> obsolete transition: I
> disagree strongly.
>
> My understanding from other postings is that octave aims to be Matlab
> compatible, but I see no reason to restrict everyone to Matlab's
> feature set.  I don't care about Matlab compatability, I want to be
> able to directly tweak my gnuplot output.  I understand others do want
> Matlab compatibility, but they can simply avoid using 'gset'.
>
> Perhaps the better way to do this instead of writing off opportunities
> for innovation within octave, is to create an environment setting
> 'MATLAB_STRICT' or some such, which if set, displays an error/warning
> if non-matlab commands are encountered, but if unset doesn't worry
> about it.
>
> You could go a step further with this and use the setting as a matlab
> version number, so users could even track if they use a feature
> unavailable in the specific version of matlab of concern.
>
> Thanks!
>   -Ethan

Ethan,

What are the aspects of the plot you'd like to tweak?

If you are interested in more control over the gnuplot stream you can  
write it to  a file and tweak all you like :-)

  drawnow ("x11", "/dev/null", true, gpfile)

However, it is very likely that the Matlab approach will provide you  
with the flexibility you need, just in a different way. If you can  
explain what you're looking for we may be able to help.

Ben