legend in 2.1.64

[Daniel J Sebald]

I've placed

  automatic_replot = 0;

in my .octcaverc file.  Is that supposed to effect "legend" as well?  I 
notice when I enter Octave and there is no plot yet, turning off the 
legend results in:

octave:1> legend('off')
error: replot: must have something to plot
error: evaluating if command near line 123, column 5
error: evaluating if command near line 104, column 3
error: called from `legend' in file 
`/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.64/site/m/octave-forge/plot/legend.m'

Naturally one can create the plot and then turn off the legend, which is 
done automatically without having to do a "replot".  However, "title", 
'xlabel', "ylabel" don't work that way.  "legend" behavior should be 
changed, right?

Thanks,

Dan