Re: Plot command sequence behavior

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Mar-2008, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > Or just add plot decorations after making the plot:
| > 
| >   plot (0:50);
| >   title ("hi");
| 
| But then after typing in a bunch of decorations and deciding the plot doesn't 
look exactly right and one wants to
| 
|   plot (0:60)
| 
| instead then it is back to entering all the decorations.

Then complain to the MathWorks because we don't get to choose the
semantics for the Matlab functions if we are to have compatible
behavior.

| Just seems odd, that's all.  If one opens a new figure, then yes all 
decorations should be cleared, but when just essentially changing the data for 
the existing plot?

Then use

  set (gca (), "xdata", new_xdata, "ydata", new_ydata);

etc.

jwe