Don't pass axis handle unnecessarily from high level to low level plot functions. * scripts/plot/comet.m, scripts/plot/comet3.m, scripts/plot/compass.m, scripts/plot/contour.m, scripts/plot/contourf.m, scripts/plot/cylinder.m, scripts/plot/ellipsoid.m, scripts/plot/errorbar.m, scripts/plot/feather.m, scripts/plot/mesh.m, scripts/plot/meshc.m, scripts/plot/meshz.m, scripts/plot/pcolor.m, scripts/plot/plot3.m, scripts/plot/rectangle.m, scripts/plot/rose.m, scripts/plot/scatter3.m, scripts/plot/semilogxerr.m, scripts/plot/semilogy.m, scripts/plot/semilogyerr.m, scripts/plot/slice.m, scripts/plot/sphere.m, scripts/plot/stairs.m, scripts/plot/surf.m, scripts/plot/surfc.m, scripts/plot/surfnorm.m, scripts/plot/trimesh.m, scripts/plot/trisurf.m: Don't pass hax to lower level functions after newplot() has been called.

--- a/scripts/plot/rectangle.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/rectangle.m
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@
   unwind_protect
     hax = newplot (hax);
 
-    htmp =  __rectangle__ (hax, varargin{:});
-
+    htmp = __rectangle__ (hax, varargin{:});
   unwind_protect_cleanup
     if (! isempty (oldfig))
       set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);
@@ -213,9 +212,9 @@
 function update_props (h, d)
   kids = get (h, "children");
   set (kids, "edgecolor", get (h, "edgecolor"),
-       "linewidth", get (h, "linewidth"),
-       "linestyle", get (h, "linestyle"),
-       "facecolor", get (h, "facecolor"));
+             "linewidth", get (h, "linewidth"),
+             "linestyle", get (h, "linestyle"),
+             "facecolor", get (h, "facecolor"));
 endfunction