From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Jan  4 23:43:25 2006
Subject: Re: gnuplot gset
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke at cs dot ucsd dot edu>
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>, bug@octave.org
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:43:04 -0500

On  4-Jan-2006, Sean O'Rourke wrote:

| Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> writes:
| 
| > How about the following?
| >
| >    function gnuplot(varargin), __gnuplot_plot__(varargin{:}); endfunction
| >    function gnuset(varargin), __gnuplot_set__(varargin{:}); endfunction
| 
| Does the old gplot do some special command-line parsing,

Yes.

| or will that plus a mark_as_command on both do the trick?

No, because the parsing required for gplot was even more special than
what is used for "commands".  That's one of the reasons I wanted to
remove it.

jwe



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