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Spicing up the Matlab Editor

Matlab's Editor and Workspace can be enhanced quite significantly using an open-source utility.

March 30, 2018 One Comment Read More »

MLintFailureFiles or: Why can't I save my m-file?!

Sometimes Matlab gets into a state where it cannot use a valid m-file. This article explains what can be done.

February 1, 2012 No Comments Read More »

Recovering previous editor state

Recovering the previous state of the Matlab editor and its loaded documents is possible using a built-in backup config file.

January 11, 2012 22 Comments Read More »

Accessing the Matlab Editor

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

October 19, 2009 50 Comments Read More »

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

September 6, 2009 No Comments Read More »

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.

August 20, 2009 4 Comments Read More »

Non-textual editor actions

The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:

July 17, 2009 10 Comments Read More »

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.

July 1, 2009 24 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Josh (19 hours 17 minutes ago): Dear Yair, Small typo; you wrote >>Move lines up or down – CTRL + ALT + UP or DOWN allows you to move selected lines up or down but it’s actually ALT+SHIFT then UP/DOWN...
  • Yair Altman (7 days 13 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
  • Thomas (7 days 15 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
  • Yair Altman (10 days 22 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
  • Manzn (11 days 1 hour ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
  • Yerlan (12 days 6 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
  • Yair Altman (12 days 22 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
  • Erik (14 days 9 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...
  • turhv (27 days 4 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
  • Jianfei (60 days 7 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
  • Donato Coppola (66 days 3 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
  • Kim (71 days 17 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
  • Adil (73 days 18 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
  • Mr Ashley Trowell (76 days 4 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
  • Matt (81 days 6 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
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