Too much free time...

[Daniel J Sebald]

In trying to investigate why my system takes so long to draw, I placed a pause() 
inside of __go_draw_axes__.m.  I've tried pause in a simple test M file and it 
seemed to work fine, but inside __go_draw_axes__.m according to the attached 
patch Octave goes into an infinite loop of redrawing the figure at a rapid rate. 
 After about twenty seconds I get:

error: max_recursion_limit exceeded

Any explanation for this?  I wonder because this might be a clue to the source 
of delay in my system.  That is, without the "pause()" perhaps (just guessing) 
there is this loop that goes to the recursion limit, stops then draws the plot. 
 With the pause(), the loop "comes back to the command line" and draws every 
time, hence it takes longer to reach the recursion limit.

I can't see any files in octave subdirectory left over from the plotting 
debugging that might cause this.

Dan

--- /usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9+/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m    2007-03-24 
13:34:52.000000000 -0500
+++ __go_draw_axes__.m  2007-03-24 22:08:35.260403463 -0500
@@ -731,7 +731,9 @@
 
   else
     print_usage ();
-  endif    
+  endif
+
+pause();
 
 endfunction