Enable country-based clipping in coast -E #5334
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Description of proposed changes
To date, we have been able to plot (draw or fill) DCW countries or dump their coordinates to stdout. This PR adds clipping to the mix. With the new modifiers +c and +C you can use coast to set up clip paths that will affect the following plotting commands until you terminate clipping with clip -C. There are two flavors to the clipping option:
I have added a test script for this (coastclip.sh) which sets up these paths and then tries to paint the entire region using basemap -B+g: