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+## Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## 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} {} getpref (@var{group}, @var{pref}, @var{default})
+## Return the preference value corresponding to the named preference
+## @var{pref} in the preference group @var{group}.
+##
+## The named preference group must be a character string.
+##
+## If @var{pref} does not exist in @var{group} and @var{default} is
+## specified, return @var{default}.
+##
+## The preference @var{pref} may be a character string or a cell array
+## of character strings.  The corresponding default value @var{default}
+## may be any value, or, if @var{pref} is a cell array of strings,
+## @var{default} must be a cell array of values with the same size as
+## @var{pref}.
+##
+## If neither @var{pref} nor @var{default} are specified, return a
+## structure of preferences for the preference group @var{group}.
+##
+## If no arguments are specified, return a structure containing all
+## groups of preferences and their values.
+## @seealso{addpref, setpref, ispref, rmpref}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function retval = getpref (group, pref, default)
+
+  if (nargin == 0)
+    retval = loadprefs ();
+  elseif (nargin == 1)
+    if (ischar (group))
+      prefs = loadprefs ();
+      if (isfield (prefs, group))
+        retval = prefs.(group);
+      else
+        retval = [];
+      endif
+    else
+      error ("expecting group to be a character string");
+    endif
+  elseif (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3)
+    grp = getpref (group);
+    if (ischar (pref))
+      if (isfield (grp, pref))
+        retval = grp.(pref);
+      elseif (nargin == 3)
+        retval = default;
+      else
+        error ("preference %s does not exist in group %s", pref, group);
+      endif
+    elseif (iscellstr (pref))
+      if (nargin == 2 || size_equal (pref, default))
+        for i = 1:numel(pref)
+          if (isfield (grp, pref{i}))
+            retval.(pref) = grp.(pref{i});
+          elseif (nargin == 3)
+            retval.(pref) = default{i};
+          else
+            error ("preference %s does not exist in group %s", pref{i}, group);
+          endif
+        endfor
+      else
+        error ("size mismatch for pref and default");
+      endif
+    else
+      error ("expecting pref to be a character string or cellstr");
+    endif
+  else
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%% Testing these functions will require some care to avoid wiping out
+%% existing (or creating unwanted) preferences for the user running the
+%% tests.