Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

December 8th, 2008

Not all of our new features are as complex and headline-earning as the Current Directory or Function Browser. Sometimes we quietly introduce small features or enhancements. Did you notice that the character limit line in the editor went from pink to gray?

The line is customizable now, so if 1 pixel gray does not do it for you, go ahead and change the width, color, and placement from the preferences (File -> Preferences -> Editor -> Display).

This was one of our smaller enhancements in the latest release, but a useful one none the less, especially for laptop users where some colors are hard to see. Additionally, it’s the first thing I contributed as a new member of the desktop team over a year ago!

By Michael Katz

Mike is a developer on the MATLAB Mobile team. When not describing himself in the third person, biking, homebrewing, or rooting for the home team, he's busy trying to make the world a better place for programming.

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6 Responses to “New settings for Editor limit line”

1. Ken replied on December 8th, 2008 at 12:49 UTC :
   

   I like to slide my line-limit out to 100 characters, use a color of RGB: 210, 210, 210 and keep the 1 pixel default thickness. What settings do others use?

2. Rodney Thomson replied on December 10th, 2008 at 08:29 UTC :
   

   Our coding standard here enforces an 80 character limit (derived from standard terminal width).

   Aside from that I’m still pretty in pink (2008a here) and will probably keep it that way as its non intrusive.

   I was rather lost this week when I discovered that Visual Studio 2005 did not have an easy way to generate a similar guide (had to do it via the registry!)

3. John replied on December 15th, 2008 at 10:21 UTC :
   

   Sorry for posting in the wrong place, but do anyone know if exist a function for binomial coeficients that works as a symbolic function?

   Thanks

4. Mike replied on December 15th, 2008 at 13:37 UTC :
   

   John,

   You’re definitely asking in the wrong place. At best I can point you to the Symbolic Math Toolbox documentation, the MATLAB newsgroup, or technical support.

5. Mike replied on December 15th, 2008 at 14:28 UTC :
   

   Rodney,

   Thanks. When you upgrade to 8b, because there was no previous preference you’ll go to gray automatically. But you can always set it back.

6. Ben replied on April 19th, 2011 at 09:04 UTC :
   

   Nice feature.
   But there is one thing I found confusing:
   Even after changing the POSITION of the character limit LINE,
   comments are still word-wrapped at the old limit.
   To change word-wrapping I had to look for yet another setting in the preferences.

   Ben

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