Can I use MATLAB editor without running MATLAB? - matlab

Is there any way to open MATLAB editor without opening MATLAB ? I would like to edit my codes using MATLAB editor and my laptop is getting very slow. So Can I just open MATLAB editor?
Also, is there any good editor like MATLAB's editor?

The MATLAB Editor is part of the IDE, so you can't launch it without launching MATLAB.
Notepad++ is a great text editor for Windows, that supports syntax highlighting for many languages, including MATLAB, and is pretty lightweight.

You can just open it in notepad or text editor. Just right click on it and select open with and then select whichever text editor you want to use.

Since MATLAB GUI is quite computationally expensive I open MATLAB without the GUI:
matlab -nodesktop
In such a way I have the MATLAB prompt ready to work and I edit files with sublime text editor setting MATLAB syntax.
It looks like this:

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What is the Variable Editor in Octave GUI

Can someone tell me what the variable editor section of Octave GUI does? Is it supposed to be like MATLAB's Live scripts?
please see screenshots in this below report
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53838#comment3

What is the right way to run compilation of a language like c++ in text editors and show outputs to the text editor?

I am curious to know how hackable text editors like atom and IDEs like eclipse and netbeans run compilations of programming languages in its application and show outputs inside the application.
Do the text editors/IDEs invoke the compiler like we do inside a command line (without having to display the command line GUI) to compile the files and then pipe the output to its built-in command line?
How is it really done?
Thanks in advance.
edit: I would like to know the procedure that those IDEs and text editors take to perform compilations and display outputs to the built-in/plugin terminal. I'm not asking because I don't know how to compile the code I wrote in my IDE.
Atom editor have the appropriate plug-ins.
terminal - the launch of the terminal directly from the atom editor.
c++ compiler - compile and run c++ within atom editor.

Matlab Editor - show tabs and whitespace characters

I've been writing a lot of code in Matlab 2012a recently, and I'm wondering if there's some way to show whitespace characters (tabs, spaces, etc.) like in Notepad++ or Sublime Text.
I've been Googling around and did a search on SO, but the internet seems oddly quiet.
Thanks!
Although I don't think you can do this in the MATLAB editor, you can choose to use a different editor as your default. Under Preferences go to Editor/Debugger, and select "Text Editor" rather than "MATLAB Editor" (you need to supply the full path).
If this is set, then .m files etc. opened from within MATLAB should open in your preferred editor, not the MATLAB editor.

Non Maximized matlab GUI figure

Is there a way to create a GUI which starts as a maximized windows?
I've tried to add set(gcf,'Units','normalized','Position',[0,0,1,1]); at the end of my gui's mygui_OpeningFcn() function but the GUI is not maximized properly (see printscreen).
Setting the GUI properties at GUIDE to Units-'normalized' and Position-[0,0,1,1] didn't help either.
I've also tried to use the Matlab File Exchange maximize function by adding maximize(handle.figure1); at the end of my gui's mygui_OpeningFcn() but it doesn't work either (same visual result - a GUI which is not entirely maximized).
Is there a way to make the Matlab GUI appear as a maximized figure when I launch it?
Why am I getting this strange visual behavior of the GUI?
If you are on a Windows machine, I suggest you use the WindowAPI submission from FEX. It directly calls Windows API functions (using a MEX file), thus allowing far more advanced control of figures than just minimize and maximize:
hFig = figure('Menubar','none');
WindowAPI(hFig,'Maximize')

Create tabs in a matlab GUI

How can I create tabs in matlab gui?
I did something like this a while ago...
I mean I created some menus at top of my GUI and then pressing each menu will set visible property of some controls on and the others get off
that way is useful for small GUIs but in beag GUIs it encounters problems and editing the GUI gets hard
I need someway to create seperate GUIs acting just like Mozilla tabs
Is there anyway to create that?
Tabs aren't officially supported yet, even though there exists the semi-documented function uitab. Note that in 2012a it warns you that the function will change.
However, there is a very nice submission on the File Exchange, the GUI layout toolbox that comes with tab functionality.
Matlab supports tabs from R2014b
See uitabgroup