From 7fb995094e73d23cefcd4ddf081ae6f333361c54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Breloff <tom@breloff.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:28:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added closeall for gr/pyplot

---
 src/Plots.jl           | 1 +
 src/backends/gr.jl     | 2 ++
 src/backends/pyplot.jl | 2 ++
 src/output.jl          | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Plots.jl b/src/Plots.jl
index eebe49b8..b5f09597 100644
--- a/src/Plots.jl
+++ b/src/Plots.jl
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ export
     savefig,
     png,
     gui,
+    closeall,
 
     backend,
     backends,
diff --git a/src/backends/gr.jl b/src/backends/gr.jl
index 7a12bae7..c3573614 100644
--- a/src/backends/gr.jl
+++ b/src/backends/gr.jl
@@ -1079,3 +1079,5 @@ function _display(plt::Plot{GRBackend})
         gr_display(plt)
     end
 end
+
+closeall(::GRBackend) = GR.emergencyclosegks()
diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index eb0ce0ad..abac4017 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
@@ -1224,3 +1224,5 @@ for (mime, fmt) in _pyplot_mimeformats
         )
     end
 end
+
+closeall(::PyPlotBackend) = PyPlot.plt[:close]("all")
diff --git a/src/output.jl b/src/output.jl
index b71dc7ed..d2b7da7c 100644
--- a/src/output.jl
+++ b/src/output.jl
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ for mime in keys(_mimeformats)
     end
 end
 
+closeall() = closeall(backend())
+
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------
 # A backup, if no PNG generation is defined, is to try to make a PDF and use FileIO to convert