# How can I plot two lines in the same style (using cycle lists) with pgfplots?

I am using cycle lists and the \addplot+ command to plot lines in different styles. I would like to plot several things using each style, however, like this:

% Plot using style 1

% Plot using style 2


How can I do this?

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forget plot key is the usual way to do this but \addlegendentry{} does not choose which addplot command it comes after. You have to draw the to-be-legended(!?) plots consecutively at the beginning. So you can collate the plots such that you draw them 1-2-3,1-2-3, in terms of style as follows

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
% Plot using style 1

\pgfplotsset{cycle list shift=-2} % Goes two styles back
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}


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be warned: {cycle list shift} is not a function but an offset so it does not affect the internel counter! So to draw another two plots with the same style use \pgfplotsset{cycle list shift=-4} (and not -2 agian) –  Thomas Jul 1 at 17:02
@Thomas That's the designated behavior, from the manual; Remember that i is the index of the current \addplot command (starting with 0). –  percusse Jul 2 at 9:16

Never mind, I seem to have stumbled upon the answer myself in the pfdplots manual section 4.24 "Miscellaneous Options", specifically the forget plot option:

% Plot using style 1