I really dislike the MATLAB GUI, thus, I followed some instructions online to open MATLAB via Terminal using matlab -nodesktop. It works. However, I lack the conveniences of syntax highlighting; the sorts that exists in vim, for example.
I am interested in knowing if this is possible.
Try this FileExchange submissions:
Highlighting Matlab files in Vim
Editing Matlab files in Vim
There's Matlab mode for emacs, and also a built-in octave mode which will serve for syntax highlighting.
You can use edit yourfile.m in the terminal to open the matlab editor. This will open the editor without the entire matlab gui. Not sure why you'd want to do this though...
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I read this previous question What alternatives are there to the MATLAB Editor? and I am interesting in using another editor so I can also compile my codes with MATALB.
I did what the mentioned link suggested but I cannot see the difference. I went to Preferences Editor/Debbuger and I changed the editor to Notepad++ and nothing happened.
How can I use Notepad++ to compile and run MATALB codes?
P.S. I looked for "run matlab with notpad++" on google but did not find anything interesting.
Also my previous question is related (Can I use MATLAB editor without running MATLAB?).
I answered this a bit more thoroughly here: Running a MATLAB script from Notepad++
Use NppExec add-on and press F6, copy paste the following and save the script:
NPP_SAVE
set local MATPATH=C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2015a\bin\matlab.exe
cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
"$(MATPATH)" -nodisplay -nosplash -nodesktop -r "try,
run('$(CURRENT_DIRECTOR)$(FILE_NAME)'), catch me, fprintf('%s /
%s\n',me.identifier,me.message), end"
When you mean run matlab code, if you just want to edit it and save and then run from MATLAB terminal, then you can use it just regularly as well. Save in notepad, run on MATLAB.
The problem arises when you want MATLAB editor features like debugger, and execute a block of code within %%. You cannot do all of it. You can set breakpoints, How to debug matlab code without gui
I think you wont get the other features of MATLAB editor if you use an external editor.
Question says it all: in a Windows OS, is there a way to make Matlab's csvread or importdata recognize that it needs to follow myfile.csv.lnk to the source file?
Matlab can't process windows shortcut style symbolic links, but it has no problem with ntfs symlinks which were added around Vista and are transparent to applications. I've tested both the symbolic and hard link variants of these and both work fine through Matlab.
You make them using the mklink command, similar to this
mklink test.lnk test.txt
I'm trying to use EMACS as the external editor for MATLAB. After following the directions here: matlab script editing I can get the matlab-shell feature working, but I still don't understand how to use EMACS to write scripts.
When I hit edit in the MATLAB console and get to EMACS, I don't see any MATLAB-specific features. Where are the syntax highlighting, debugging, etc. options?
You need the matlab-emacs integration from here: http://matlab-emacs.sourceforge.net/ - that should get you syntax highlighting. If you already have that installed, perhaps you need to update your auto-mode-alist.
I must admit that while I use emacs extensively for editing, I use the MATLAB editor for debugging.
… similar to the StatET plugin that allows you to run R code from Eclipse?
I tried googling it but nothing useful has turned up.
None that I know. If you're a CLI junky or willing to use Emacs, you might find limited support through the ESS package and the ado-mode. This is what I used on Mac OS X when I want to run short snippet of code, or use Stata in batch mode, but there's no interactive graphical output (you can just save graphics as PDF as usual). The ado-mode provides basic syntax highlighting and can send region or buffer to a running instance of Stata GUI program (not the executable file, stata-*, that is being used by ESS).
Here are two screenshots of (top) edition of code in Emacs with the ado-mode, and (bottom) an interactive Stata session (no plot produced).
Some notes on text editors for Stata users provides a list of text editors that can be used with Stata (without interactive facilities, though).
There seems to be a promising project starting up here:
http://mas802.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/stata-plugin-for-eclipse-alpha/
Comparing Visual Studio code completion with MATLAB R2008b 7.7 there are a few important features missing in the last one:
Local variables completion
Function, for, if auto ENDing
But Visual Studio doesn't support MATLAB code. Is there any MATLAB plugin, editor or version with a better code completion?
You could always take a look at MATLAB-Emacs integration (also deals with Vim in the article).
Also, while we're at the subject:
Editing MATLAB files with Vim
Evaluate selected text from Vim in Matlab
On Windows, Notepad++ allows code completion of functions and words.
With the R2010a release of MATLAB, the Editor's tab completion now includes local variables.