plot issues

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Jun-2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:

| > >set(h,'yscale','lin');
| > >Octave supports 'log', but not 'lin'.
| > 
| > Try
| > 	set (h, "yscale", "linear")
| 
| Yes, it works. 
| Can you please add "lin" as a synonym, in order to be compatible?

Does Matlab also accept "li", "line", and "linea"?  If so, then I
suppose it is accepting the minimun number of characters to
distinguish among the possible values.  In that case, we should not
simply add "lin" as another possible option for this one property, but
instead fix the radio_property class to do this for all radio button
properties.  That change should probably be done after the 3.2
release.  Then if we stick with only fixing regressions in the 3.2.x
release series, this new feature will appear in the next major release
of Octave, not any 3.2.x release.

jwe