{"id":316,"date":"2009-06-08T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2009\/06\/08\/using-the-cell-mode-toolbar\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:12:14","slug":"using-the-cell-mode-toolbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2009\/06\/08\/using-the-cell-mode-toolbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the cell mode toolbar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MATLAB Editor is great because supports many different workflows and user styles. Even though I call myself an advanced MATLAB user, I have long since stopped being surprised when I find out about something that has been there forever and is quite blatant in the UI. There are just some things that I don’t need to use in my normal work, but may be quite useful to others. One such thing is the cell mode toolbar<\/a>. If the toolbar is not already present in the editor, you can activate it from the menu: Cell -> Enable Cell Mode. <\/p>\n

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The first two items on the toolbar are the ones I use a lot. They are evaluate current cell (Ctrl+Enter) and evaluate cell and advance to next (Ctrl+Shift+Enter). This is great for live demos, where you can put a single concept (of multiple commands) in a cell and then step through a file one cell at a time. The demo workflow also fits nicely with publishing, where each step of the demo publishes into a separate section. Just remember that evaluating a cell evaluates the enclosed commands in the base workspace, which is not necessarily the same workspace as if the file were run regularly. <\/p>\n

The next two sections of the toolbar have a textbox surrounded by either a “+,-” or a “x,%”. It’s not obvious what to do with these. If you place the caret in the editor next to a number or select a number, then the +,-,x,% buttons will light up. Pressing them will increment\/decrement or multiply\/divide the selected number by the amount in the box and reevaluate the current cell. This is good for tweaking a numerical parameter, such as a coefficient, tolerance, or number of iterations\/interpolations. In this example I’m tweaking the peaks<\/tt><\/a> input, which produces a nice visual change on each increment.<\/p>\n

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The next two buttons %%<\/span> are a little more obvious but their icons are subtly different. The first one has a plus “+” in the icon and clicking it inserts a new cell marker. It’s handy to have that for the mouse, but I find it faster to type “%%”. The second one provides you a dropdown list of the cells in your file, the same way the function dropdown provides a list of functions in the file. <\/p>\n

And remember, you can always customize the buttons that show up on the cell mode toolbar: File -> Preferences -> Toolbars -> Editor Cell Mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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