Quentin Spencer writes:
Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
In my opinion use of 'gset' functions should be discouraged.
I agree. I do occasionally use gset for low level stuff like putting
arrows on the plot and things like that. There are some occasions
where
I also use a 'gset nokey' to turn off the key that is enabled by
default. It occurs to me that in the competing product, you don't get
a
key unless you ask for one. If we wanted true compatibility, maybe the
plot function should be modified to turn the key off until the user
turns it on with the legend command from octave-forge. The presence of
the key is especially a nuisance when plotting a very large number of
lines: the key can cover most of the plot.
I think that gset usage depends very much on the type of work you're
doing.
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.