setting defaults: startup.m

this might have been useful to learn 7 years ago: make a startup.m file and put it in your path, you can set all sorts of defaults like line widths, colors, etc.

http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1200/1205.html

see:
Section 5: Setting default property values

If I ever get around to it I'll set font to Arial, size to 14, LineWidth to 2. Or something like that.