Comments on: Configurable keyboard shortcuts have arrived

By: Jens Huber

Jens Huber — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:10:21 +0000

Oh I forgot Mike, the hint you gave to Jessica doesn’t help, because these are “Pre2009bMacDefaults”, which seem to be different than the current “Macintosh Default Set”. E.g. evaluate cell in the current set is cmd + Enter and in the Pre2009b set it’s ctrl + Enter.

Thanks

By: Jens Huber

Jens Huber — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:05:47 +0000

I know this is an old topic, but I hope I can still get an answer. I switch constantly between my desktop Mac Matlab 2011 and a Matlab 2009b on a unix cluster. However I access the cluster via an NX-client (Remote Desktop) from my Mac -> therefore I have the command key on my keyboard when using the unix version. I’m used to the Macintosh keyboard shortcuts (“Macintosh Default Set”), and want to use them on the unix version as well.

Is there any way to do this?
Where can I find the .xml file for the Macintosh Default set? Can I just select this in the unix version and this will lead to all the command+enter, command+c, etc. commands working like on the mac version?

Thanks!

By: John King

John King — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:27:35 +0000

@JohnKingV

I have read your article about customizing key-strokes to perform that actions supplied. I am working on a project to standardize the header and footer information that goes into a ‘.m’ file. I have written a function that creates a template ‘.m’ file that uses pre-formatted prompts to gather information about the function being written.

This would be a handy function to call using the (CTRL + N) functionality.

Is it possible to call a function from a keyboard shortcut?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:40:08 +0000

@Jessica,

Yes. Check out our File Exchange http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25119-matlab-desktop-r2009a-default-keyboard-shortcut-sets

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:58:56 +0000

Mike, I’m using Matlab R2011a installed on a linux machine. I connect to the machine remotely using ssh -X on my Mac. If I could choose for Matlab to use Mac key bindings, my life would be really easy! But I only have the option for Windows and Emacs. Is there a downloadable mac set I can use on a Windows or Linux machine, when connecting remotely? I couldn’t find this on the file exchange. Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:08:47 +0000

@Chad,

Correct, that command does not change the setting, it is a side effect of changing the keybindings from the gui, rather than the cause. There is no supported way to do this from the Command line, but I will create an enhancement for the key bindings team.

By: Chad Gilbert

Chad Gilbert — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:09:55 +0000

I had a few minutes to think and read about this over lunch. This command:

com.mathworks.services.Prefs.setStringPref(‘CurrentKeyBindingSet’, );

changes my matlab.prf file the way I want. But then I can’t convince MATLAB to acknowledge the change! Even worse, restarting MATLAB changes the matlab.prf file back to its default state.

By: Chad Gilbert

Chad Gilbert — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:51:54 +0000

Hi Christina, Mike,

I sometime use MALAB on school computers, where logging off resets MATLAB’s settings. My solution is to carry around a USB stick with a setup.m script on it and run that script when I log on. Is there any code I can add to that script so taht I can assign my custom keybindings automatically?

Thanks for your great work on the MATLAB GUI.

By: R Kan

R Kan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:40:44 +0000

Hi thanks.
I had to set the path with ‘default’. Things got straightened. stupid me. simple thing

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:10:00 +0000

Did you have neural network toolbox installed in a previous version of MATLAB? It might have carried over some of your preferences that look for it. Try the command “rehash toolbox” to see if that clears it up.