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+## Copyright (C) 2007 David Bateman
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{xl} =} ylim ()
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ylim (@var{xl})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{m} =} ylim ('mode')
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ylim (@var{m})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ylim (@var{h}, @dots{})
+## Get or set the limits of the y axis of the current plot. Called without
+## argumenst @code{ylim] returns the y axis limits of the current plot.
+## If passed a two element vector @var{xl}, the limits of the y axis are set
+## to this value.
+##
+## The current mode for calculation of the y axis can be returned with a
+## call @code{ylim ('mode')}, and can be either 'auto' or 'manual'. The 
+## current plotting mode can be set by passing either 'auto' or 'manual' 
+## as the argument.
+##
+## If passed an handle as the first argument, then operate on this handle
+## rather than the current axes handle.
+## @seealso{xlim, zlim, set, get, gca}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function retval = ylim (varargin)
+  ret = __axes_limits__ ("ylim", varargin {:});
+
+  if (! isempty (ret))
+    retval = ret;
+  endif
+endfunction