@Steven – did you even bother to download and try setPrompt() before posting your comment?!
It still works to this day (duh!)

do you have video of above for matlab16a on winwows 10
if yes reply me on email p126060@nu.edu.pk

@Steven – read here: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/matlab-callbacks-for-java-events-in-r2014a

In short, add the following before calling the set command:

jTextArea = handle(jTextArea,'CallbackProperties');

% to read the matlab output into our GUI
jDesktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
jCmdWin = jDesktop.getClient('Command Window');
jTextArea = jCmdWin.getComponent(0).getViewport.getView;
set(jTextArea,'CaretUpdateCallback',{@cwtext_Call,handles});

This worked fine in linux (Matlab R2013b,mint 17), however on the computer of a colleague of mine (a mac), I get the following error:

The name 'CaretUpdateCallback' is not an accessible property for an instance of class 'com.mathworks.mde.cmdwin.XCmdWndView'.

It seems as the CaretUpdateCallback is not available on the mac (Matlab R2014a, Os X, v10.9.4), would you have a workaround for this?

@Rudolph – thanks.
Re the console, I don’t know. You’re welcome to try and possibly modify the source code. If you find anything useful, please send me

I do have one question/request. Mostly I run MatLAB in a term (gnome-terminal/konsole/whatever) and not from the MatLAB GUI (matlab -nosplahs -nodesktop).

Would your approach work for modifying the prompt in a console? Maybe something like setPromptCon..?

@junziyang – yes: you can add the setPrompt command to your startup.m function and it will be used in each Matlab session automatically.

If you don’t have a startup.m file, simply create one in your Matlab startup folder – it’s a simple Matlab script file that contains commands that run automatically whenever Matlab starts in that folder.