Category Archives: Desktop

setPrompt – Setting the Matlab Desktop prompt

The Matlab Desktop’s Command-Window prompt can easily be modified using some undocumented features

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Customizing Matlab’s Workspace table

The Matlab Desktop’s Workspace pane table can be customized, as described here

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Customizing help popup contents

The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.

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Accessing the Matlab Editor

The Matlab Editor can be accessed programmatically, for a wide variety of possible uses – this article shows how.

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R2009b keyboard bindings

The new Matlab release R2009b includes the ability to customize keyboard bindings for the editor and Command Window. However, there are still some uses for the EditorMacro utility and its variants.

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EditorMacro v2 – setting Command Window key-bindings

The EditorMacro utility was extended to support built-in Matlab Editor and Command-Window actions and key-bindings. This post describes the changes and the implementation details.

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