Comments on: Tab to narrow completions

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:56:29 +0000

@Rob and @Kristjan,

Thank you for your feedback. I would like to accommodate that request, but as you can imagine the reason why we’ve made this a preference is that some people prefer it one way and some the other. If we changed the default, not only would it take several releases and lots of documentation, but then we’d have your counterparts posting on this blog about how they want it the other way. Now that you know about this preference, you can set it and it will be carried forward with all future installations of MATLAB on your machine.

By: Kristjan Jonasson

Kristjan Jonasson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:31:26 +0000

Yes, I vote that the Tab narrows completion on as default

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:49:25 +0000

I definitely vote yes to have the “Tab narrows completion” option on as default. I used to get so frustrated every time multiple tab key presses would choose an incorrect function. With the option turned on it acts very similar to my linux shell autocomplete.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:14:53 +0000

Hi Edrin,

Sorry for the delayed response — I had to get in touch with the right people to find out the answer to this.

Using System.Console.WriteLine in .NET is not supported (you can file an enhancement request here if you like). Note that stdout in C++ and System.out.println in Java will print directly to the Command Window.

-Ken

By: edrin

edrin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:26:01 +0000

Hi Ken!
just a small question:
i am working on a project linking c# and matlab command window.
is there any possibility to printout in the matlab command line a message directly from c3, like in the msdos console?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:07:01 +0000

Let’s try that code again

foo%This is the foo property

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:05:01 +0000

I agree with per. For example, working on a new class, when I add a new property I usually want to tab over to put in a comment to describe it, like this:

foo%This is the foo property

However, at the moment, the autocompletion doesn’t allow the cursor to advance. I have to manually insert a space before I can use tab.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:33:55 +0000

As promised, the new version of EditorMacro is now online at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24615

This new version enables assigning key-bindings to Editor and Command Window user macros and built-in actions. Apparently there are ~200 possible internal Command-Window actions, but only half are assigned a keyboard shortcut by default (the same is true for the editor). Using EditorMacro you can now see the full list of actions and assign new (or reassign existing) key-bindings.

Please note that EditorMacro is highly reliant on undocumented and unsupported features, which may well break in future Matlab releases.

HTH,
Yair

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:15:28 +0000

@per,

I find that “Smart indenting” alleviates most of the need for the tab key. Also, the tab key only tries to auto-complete if the caret is abutting text, so it will still insert tabs (or spaces) some of the time.

-Ken

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:13:17 +0000

@Per – I am currently placing final touches on my EditorMacro submission on the File Exchange, that will enable you to assign a different keybinding to the auto-completion action, or any other built-in editor/menu action, in the Editor and Command Window. This version should be ready and uploaded sometime next week.

Yair