From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Mar 4 17:03:11 2004 Subject: Re: unwanted multiple plots From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:00:02 -0700 Glenn Golden wrote: > > I think that gset usage depends very much on the type of work you're > doing. > Agree. 'gset' is needed, but we should discourage users to use it when high-level routines are available. > For me, 90% of my plots are throwaways, for my own immediate use > only, e.g. interactively observing the progress of some experiment > or simulation. In that regime I constantly use gset commands for > things like changing the axes ranges so I can home in on some > particular area of interest in the plot, as the simulation runs. > Life would be unbearable without gset/replot/gset/replot. You have not switch to gnuplot 3.8 yet, have you? With it you can zoom with the mouse... (plus replot with a hot-key). > Glenn > Dmitri. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------