Non-textual editor actions
The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:
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EditorMacro – assign a keyboard macro in the Matlab editor
EditorMacro is a new utility that enables setting keyboard macros in the Matlab editor. this post details its inner workings.
Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically
The Matlab desktop enables saving and switching layouts using the main menu. This post shows how to do so programmatically.
Changing system preferences programmatically
Matlab user/system preferences can be changed programmatically, from within your Matlab application or from the Matlab desktop command prompt. This post details how.
GUIDE customization
Matlab's GUI Design Editor (GUIDE) has several interesting undocumented features. This post describes how to customize GUIDE rulers.
Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature
The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.
Spicing up Matlab uicontrol tooltips
Matlab uicontrol tooltips can be spiced-up using HTML and CSS, including fonts, colors, tables and images
tic / toc – undocumented option
Matlab's built-in tic/toc functions have an undocumented option enabling multiple nested clockings
cprintf – display formatted color text in the Command Window
cprintf is a utility that utilized undocumented Matlab desktop functionalities to display color and underline-styled formatted text in the Command Window
cellfun – undocumented performance boost
Matlab's built-in cellfun function has an undocumented option to significantly improve performance in some cases.