Expand (maximise) subplot figure temporarily — then collapse it back
Often in Matlab we would plot a figure with many subplot axes, but they are all tiny. In the prevalent UX paradigm, you would expect to be able to double-click such a small plot to have a closer look using the entire screen space. Typically this is the reason I avoid using subplot , but plot many individual figures instead — so I can move them around on the screen and double-click on their titlebars which (on Windows) maximises the figure to full screen. (Double-click again, and it returns to its normal size.) However, the advantage of subplot is that the set of plots is grouped in one panel.