From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 13 12:37:52 2006
Subject: Re: gnuplot gset
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics dot muni dot cz>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:37:45 -0500

On 11-Jan-2006, Petr Mikulik wrote:

| The current octave documentation
|     http://www.octave.org/doc/Low_002dLevel-plotting-commands.html
| still lists gset, gplot, ... commands. It does not mention their removal.
| 
| I propose the following most user-friendly approach: move gset, gplot
| from a "hardcoded" way into "userspace", thus into gset.m, gplot.m like
| 
| function gset(bla)
| global warn_gnuplot_deprecated = 1
| if (warn_gnuplot_deprecated) fprintf('gset, gplot, ... are deprecated\n');
|    warn_gnuplot_deprecated = 0;
| endif
| __gnuplot_raw__(bla);
| endfunction

This is not possible for gplot, which is the name of a function in
Matlab that Octave will also have.

jwe



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