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Revision: 8480
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8480&view=rev
Author:   efiring
Date:     2010-06-30 21:14:31 +0000 (Wed, 30 Jun 2010)

Log Message:
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doc changes for last commit

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG
    trunk/matplotlib/doc/api/api_changes.rst

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG
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--- trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG	2010-06-30 21:07:36 UTC (rev 8479)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/CHANGELOG	2010-06-30 21:14:31 UTC (rev 8480)
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-06-30 Added autoscale convenience method and corresponding
+           pyplot function for simplified control of autoscaling;
+           and changed axis, set_xlim, and set_ylim so that by
+           default, they turn off the autoscaling on the relevent
+           axis or axes.  Therefore one can call set_xlim before
+           plotting a line, for example, and the limits will be
+           retained. - EF
+
 2010-06-20 Added Axes.tick_params and corresponding pyplot function
            to control tick and tick label appearance after an Axes
            has been created. - EF

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/doc/api/api_changes.rst
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--- trunk/matplotlib/doc/api/api_changes.rst	2010-06-30 21:07:36 UTC (rev 8479)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/doc/api/api_changes.rst	2010-06-30 21:14:31 UTC (rev 8480)
@@ -10,11 +10,22 @@
 Changes beyond 0.99.x
 =====================
 
-* There are four new Axes methods with corresponding pyplot
+* The default behavior of :meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlim`,
+  :meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylim`, and
+  :meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.axis`, and their corresponding
+  pyplot functions, has been changed: when view limits are
+  set explicitly with one of these methods, autoscaling is turned
+  off for the matching axis. A new *auto* kwarg is available to
+  control this behavior.
+
+* There are five new Axes methods with corresponding pyplot
   functions to facilitate autoscaling, tick location, and tick
   label formatting, and the general appearance of ticks and
   tick labels:
 
+  + :meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.autoscale` turns autoscaling
+    on or off, and applies it.
+
   + :meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.margins` sets margins used to
     autoscale the :attr:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.viewLim` based on
     the :attr:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.dataLim`.


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