Antony Lee

But (I think?) this completely disables folding, whereas I only want to disable it for specific directories.

```patch diff --git i/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py w/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py index b9d5f5eb26..9cbf273259 100644 --- i/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py +++ w/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py @@ -1691,19 +1691,12 @@ def safe_first_element(obj): This is an type-independent way of obtaining the first element, supporting both...

Good catch, thanks. While there is probably no guarantee of ordering of prints to stdout & stderr when they happen to both go to the terminal, I guess that in...

I don't have a very strong opinion there; my PoV was basically the one expressed by @timhoffm at https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/23572#issuecomment-1209457805. If @jklymak feels strongly about this we can close it too.

Let's let @tacaswell make the call on that one.

Actually https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/23571#discussion_r950314218 doesn't really work because the parameter names are *not* part of the backend API; indeed, patheffects renderers use different parameter names. So really these arguments are currently positional...

It used to be possible to define custom hashes by fiddling with a private variable (_hatch_types), but that would not update validate_hatches to not warn on them (and because of...

Most missing coverage should be fixed now; I think everything still missing was already not covered before and just slightly shifted around so I'll skip them....

Rebased to fix that.

See also #12493 re: default artist type. Back then there was only step, not stairs, but the idea is basically the same.