[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36156] text (x, y, "Default") -> text object with empty string

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #36156 (project octave):

Ben, check Matlab's own documentation
(http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/setting-default-property-values.html)

-- CLIP --
Reserved Words

Setting a property value to default, remove, or factory produces the effects
described in the previous sections. To set a property to one of these words
(e.g., a text or uicontrol String property set to the word default), you must
precede the word with the backslash character:

h = uicontrol('Style','edit','String','\default');

-- END CLIP --

Is the correct solution to implement backslash escaping for Octave?

What does Matlab do for


h = text (0.5, 0.5, 'default');  % is string correctly rendered?
set (h, 'string', 'default');    % does this turn string into empty string?
set (h, 'string', '\default');   % does this work like the documentation
says?
                                 % is the '\' character stripped?
close all
h = text (0.5, 0.5, '\default'); % is stripping implemented here as well?



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