how to show minor gridlines?

i have these commands, i think the order of execution may affect showing the grid lines, how to order them or better ways ?

        ylim([1e-3 1e7])
        xlim([-3 10])
        set(gca,'ytick',10.^([ -2 0 2 4 6]))
        set(gca,'xtick',10.^([-3 -2 -1 0 1]))
        set(gca,'yticklabel',20.*log10(get(gca,'ytick')))
        set(gca,'xscale','log','yscale','log')
        grid(gca,'minor')
        grid on
        set(gca, 'YMinorTick','on', 'YMinorGrid','on')

Answer 1

[dpb]

Per

doc grid

grid(gca,'minor')

toggles the state of the minor grids and

grid on

turns only the major grid on. As the footnote says, use

hAx=gca;  % avoid repetitive function calls
set(hAx,'xminorgrid','on','yminorgrid','on')

to unequivocally set them in 'on' position

ADDENDUM

It would seem a reasonable enhancement request to add the 'ON|OFF' values to the 'MINOR' keyword to provide the specific functionality of

set(hAx,'xminorgrid','on','yminorgrid','on')