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/scatter3.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/scatter3.m
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@
       hax = newplot (hax);
       
       tmp = __scatter__ (hax, 3, "scatter3", varargin{:});
+
+      if (! ishold (hax))
+        set (hax, "view", [-37.5, 30],
+                  "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
+      endif
     unwind_protect_cleanup
       if (! isempty (oldfig))
         set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);
@@ -84,11 +89,6 @@
     end_unwind_protect
   endif
 
-  if (! ishold (hax))
-    set (hax, "view", [-37.5, 30],
-         "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
-  endif
-
   if (nargout > 0)
     retval = tmp;
   endif