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/surf.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/surf.m
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@
 
     if (! ishold (hax))
       set (hax, "view", [-37.5, 30],
-           "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
+                "xgrid", "on", "ygrid", "on", "zgrid", "on");
     endif
+
   unwind_protect_cleanup
     if (! isempty (oldfig))
       set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);