Comments on: M-Lint across a project

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:32:57 +0000

Tom,

Thanks for the suggestion. These tools predate classes and packages and the infrastructure they use doesn’t really deal well with the workflow. We’re working on a much more useful and comprehensive solution, but that will take a few releases.

Thanks for the suggestion.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:17:23 +0000

Can we please make these tools have a “recursive” option? Would be very useful, especially for code written using package directories!
Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:59:57 +0000

There’s no way to disable the disabling of a message. You can make an individual configuration file read only on the system, but that won’t prevent a user from changing his configuration.

By: Subhankar

Subhankar — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:09 +0000

Hi i pretty happy with this concept, but is there any way we can make our customize file as read only , bcoz if you ignore this mLint warning in editor it updates the mLint configuaration file , is there any way to disable “Ignore This “m-Lint ” on right click.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:42:36 +0000

George, This is a capability we're definitely interested in bringing to the editor. If you think it's safe to a string replace, you can use regexrep and file i/o to just parse through your files and replace a string. It's not as nice or clean as it will be when we have a GUI.

files = what;
mfiles = files.m;
for n = 1:length(mfiles)-1;
    afile = mfiles{n};
    fid = fopen(afile);
    txt = textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n','whitespace','');
    fclose(fid);
    txt = txt{1};
    txt = regexprep(txt,pattern_string,replacement_string);
    fid = fopen(afile,'w+');
    fprintf(fid,'%s\n',txt{:});
    fclose(fid);
end

By: Aurélien Queffurust

Aurélien Queffurust — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:42:43 +0000

@George : Are you looking for the “Find Files tool” (just select Edit > Find Files from any desktop tool):
Finding Files and Content Within Files in Any Directory
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_env/f10-14803.html#brpyzt7-1

For all my projects I use M-Lint to find unused variables or variables growing in the loop for example.

Aurélien

By: George

George — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:15:08 +0000

This is useful - glad I stumbled upon it. What I’m looking for, though, is how to easily search and replace all occurrences of a whole word in multiple files (i.e. all files in a directory). Basically, I want the same functionality provided by Ctrl+F with the “whole words only” option but with the ability to perform on multiple files at once.

After writing my PSO toolbox, I decided that some of my variables could have been named more transparently. For example, “Ns” could be named “num_trials_successful” so as to be obvious in meaning to any user. I’ve been going through the process: Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+F, Alt+A (with “whole words only” selected), click in m-file, Ctrl+S, click new tab, repeat. But lately I’ve been breaking my code up into m-files of specific purpose to make it easier to understand, and making project-wide improvements is now a more painful process.

A simple search and replace is not what I want though since “ns,” for example, could occur within words, which is why I want to keep the “whole words only” option.

Any ideas???