## Copyright (C) 2005-2012 John W. Eaton
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} line ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
## Create line object from @var{x} and @var{y} and insert in current
## axes object.  Return a handle (or vector of handles) to the line
## objects created.
##
## Multiple property-value pairs may be specified for the line, but they
## must appear in pairs.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function h = line (varargin)

  ## make a default line object, and make it the current axes for
  ## the current figure.
  tmp = __line__ (gca (), varargin{:});

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! clf
%! x = 0:0.3:10;
%! y1 = cos (x);
%! y2 = sin (x);
%! subplot (3,1,1);
%!  args = {'color', 'b', 'marker', 's'};
%!  line ([x(:), x(:)], [y1(:), y2(:)], args{:});
%!  title ('Test broadcasting for line()');
%! subplot (3,1,2);
%!  line (x(:), [y1(:), y2(:)], args{:});
%! subplot (3,1,3);
%!  line ([x(:), x(:)+pi/2], y1(:), args{:});
%!  xlim ([0 10]);

%!test
%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
%! unwind_protect
%!   h = line;
%!   assert (findobj (hf, "type", "line"), h);
%!   assert (get (h, "xdata"), [0 1], eps);
%!   assert (get (h, "ydata"), [0 1], eps);
%!   assert (get (h, "type"), "line");
%!   assert (get (h, "color"), get (0, "defaultlinecolor"));
%!   assert (get (h, "linestyle"), get (0, "defaultlinelinestyle"));
%!   assert (get (h, "linewidth"), get (0, "defaultlinelinewidth"), eps);
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   close (hf);
%! end_unwind_protect