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+## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 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} {} gtext (@var{s})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@{@var{s1}; @var{s2}; @dots{}@})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val})
+## Place text on the current figure using the mouse. The text is defined
+## by the string @var{s}. If @var{s} is a cell array, each element of the cell
+## array is written to a separate line. Additional arguments are passed to
+## the underlying text object as properties.
+## @seealso{ginput, text}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function gtext (s, varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! (ischar (s) || iscellstr (s)))
+ error ("gtext: S must be a string or cell array of strings");
+ endif
+
+ if (! isempty (s))
+ [x, y] = ginput (1);
+ text (x, y, s, varargin{:});
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+## Remove from test statistics. No real tests possible.
+%!test
+%! assert (1);