Comments on: Closing Time at the Document Bar

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:14:44 +0000

Jim – an undocumented/unsupported way to do exactly this was reported by another user on Loren’s blog a few months ago: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/03/03/whats-in-your-startupm/#comment-30128

Note that because of the undocumented nature of his solution, it may well fail in any upcoming Matlab release. But it works great for all the latest Matlab versions.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:10:31 +0000

Hi Jim,

There’s no way to do what you’re asking for right now, but I can tell you we’re actively working on things that will enable this.

-Ken

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:48:15 +0000

Often time I end up with 25 document on my title bar. I would like a way to write a text file containing the path & filename of each open document before closing them all. Can this be done now from the command line?

Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:00:40 +0000

Richard,

Keep watching the blog in the future…

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:14:54 +0000

You asked what more could we want – so here it is. Is it possible to close a file in the Matlab editor from the command line? If not, it would be a nice feature. I have to switch between tasks often. I use shortcuts to quickly change directories and it would be a nice feature to be able to close all the files currently open (saving the file info so they can be reopened later), switch to a new directory, and open all the relevant files. I think the only thing preventing this is the ability to close files from the command line. It would be especially helpful if the ‘close_file’ function returned a list of the files that were closed and/or accept a list of files to be closed.
Thanks

P.S. Love the title

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:39:49 +0000

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for the suggestion. We will consider something like this in the future.

-Christina

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:25:39 +0000

Can you make a feature to open all subroutines? So if I open my file main.m I also get function1.m function2.m,script1.m if they are currently called by main.m (or by a subsidiary, so if main.m calls script1.m which calls function 4.m I want to view all 3 of them. )
Thanks.

By: Andrew Catellier

Andrew Catellier — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:51:49 +0000

Documents, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.

Had no idea about right clicking on the closing bar, or the close dialog box. Thanks!

And of course, props for the witty title.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:54:22 +0000

Thanks for pointing out this pitfall. We will consider doing something about it in a future release.

By: Michel Slivitzky

Michel Slivitzky — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:12:23 +0000

I may be off topic, but would like to make a suggestion for keeping files in editor when closed inadvertently

How about having a confirmations dialog window when closing the editor (undocked).

I can’t remember hoe many times I have lost track of all files in the editor by clicking on close instead of minimize.

Would be nice to have this option in a future version