Re: desired features for gp backend?

[Daniel J Sebald]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > Robert T. Short wrote:
> >
> > > As far as octave with gnuplot, I really liked the old gplot  interface.
> >
> >
> > I liked it too.
>
>
> Dan, Robert,
>
> Was it just the interface that you liked, or some specific  functionality?

Being able to send commands to gnuplot before doing a plot in order to modify 
gnuplot in ways not possible with the plot commands.  The concept doesn't work 
so well anymore because plot() modifies a lot of things that one might want to 
set.  However, as gnuplot evolves to retain data, it seems one could do this 
POST plot().  For example,

set(fig, 'postplot', 'set gnuplotfeature xyz; replot')
plot(x, y)

might have value.

It isn't that important at the moment.  As Bob said, graphics is now pretty 
feature rich, plus gnuplot doesn't have the retained data working perfectly yet.

Dan