patch(...) swallows tick marks

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear all

If I plot a patch that extends to the axes of a plot, the tick marks get
covered by the patch. A simple example to illustrate this effect is:

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clf
patch ([5.5 10 10 5.5],[1 1 10 10],'r'); hold on
plot(1:10)
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Is there a way to make the tick marks visible again?

(I have Octave 2.9.18 with gnuplot 4.2)

Matthias