hold not functioning properly in 3.0.3

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:07 AM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On  9-Dec-2008, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>
> | I just discovered that "hold on" is not working properly in Octave
> | 3.0.3.  To reproduce, do
> |
> | octave:1> figure(1)
> | octave:2> hold on
> | octave:3> plot(1:10,1:10)
> | octave:4> plot(1:10,(1:10).^2)
> |
> | Only the second line plot is shown.  Inserting the hold command in
> | between the plotting commands does work, but the above should work also.
> |
> |
> | My platform is Mac OS X, with gnuplot and x11 terminal for plotting.
>
> I can confirm this problem with 3.0.3 installed from a Debian
> package but it works correctly for me with the current sources from
> the Mercurial archive.
>
> We should probably try to fix this problem for 3.0.4.
>
> jwe
>

I have no clue what may be wrong. I could attempt a binary search for
the offending changeset, but if this problem already existed in
3.0.3... maybe someone has a suggestion?


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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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