Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

June 15th, 2007

When I am working on code, I find that I often need to move back and forth between two places in the code – sometimes several places in the code. The best way to do this in MATLAB is with Bookmarks in the Editor. To add a bookmark in a file, place your caret on the line that you wish to mark, and then select the Go menu, Set/Clear Bookmark menuitem:

You can also use the Ctrl-F2 (On the Mac, Command-F2) keybinding to set a bookmark instead of using the menuitem.

A blue bookmark will be added to the gutter next to the line numbers:

Now you can easily move between bookmarks using the F2 key to move to the next bookmark and the Shift-F2 to go back to the previous bookmark, no matter where you are in the file.

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8 Responses to “Scroll less with Editor Bookmarks”

1. junziyang replied on June 16th, 2007 at 07:27 UTC :
   

   Great! I’ll have a try! Thanks!

2. Markus replied on June 18th, 2007 at 01:57 UTC :
   

   I have tried the bookmarks, but when I close and re-open a file, they are gone. Like this, the bookmarks are only of very limited use for me.

3. Ruben Faibish replied on June 23rd, 2007 at 20:08 UTC :
   

   Is there a possibilty to save the bookmarks? I am talking about something similar to the breakpoints that you can get by using dbstatus and then save them. I looked at the java classes that control the MATLAB editor, but I couldn’t find anything related to the bookmarks.

4. Kristin replied on June 25th, 2007 at 07:22 UTC :
   

   Not at this time, but we are looking into it.

5. Hugh Thompson replied on September 6th, 2007 at 12:36 UTC :
   

   I absolutely agree – the ability to save bookmarks would be a tremendous feature, and I am very surprised it does not already exist. When working with very long, complex files, bookmarks can greatly simplify navigation – but they are of little use if they disappear every time you close the file!

6. Yury replied on March 31st, 2010 at 09:27 UTC :
   

   Matlab 2010 is released, but we still can’t save bookmarks. It’s a pity.

7. mnasr14 replied on August 19th, 2011 at 13:49 UTC :
   

   there is a trick to have permanent bookmarks:
   you can write an additional line without ; where you want to refer frequently.
   this make an output in command window and an orange dash (messages you to add a ;) will appear in the right side. you can easily click on orange dashes as bookmarks! ;-)

8. mnasr14 replied on August 21st, 2011 at 18:50 UTC :
   

   I offer another way to have quick links like bookmarks.
   If you use cells in your code, the title of each cell appears in Ctrl+G list.
   You can easily add two % (%%) before a comment. MATLAB treats that line until the next %% as a cell. You can run each cell repeatedly and access to the first line of it using Ctrl+G.

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