desired features for gp backend?

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Jun-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| set(fig, 'postplot', 'set gnuplotfeature xyz; replot')
| plot(x, y)
| 
| might have value.

I have no interest in doing this because it ties your plotting
commands to gnuplot, and introduces portability problems for people
who don't want to use gnuplot for plotting.  I think it is much better
to have Octave's plotting functions and properties be generic, and
equally supported by all plotting backends.  If you want to use
specific gnuplot features, I think the best solution is to write your
data to a file and use gnuplot directly.

jwe