# How to hold plotting window?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-hold-plotting-window/4169>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-hold-plotting-window/4169 "2017-06-09T09:29:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-hold-plotting-window/4169/2 "2017-06-09T09:37:40Z")

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add an exclamation mark at the end of the second `plot` function:

```julia
using Plots
pyplot()
default(show = true)

plot(rand(3))
plot!(rand(5))

```

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