{"id":496,"date":"2011-10-17T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2011\/10\/17\/r2011b-command-window-formatting-improvements\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:17:30","slug":"r2011b-command-window-formatting-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2011\/10\/17\/r2011b-command-window-formatting-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"R2011b Command Window Formatting Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest release we have a number of new formatting improvements in the MATLAB Command Window.<br \/>\n<strong>Easier to read errors<\/strong><br \/>\nIn old releases if there was an error when running a file, MATLAB would display an error like:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color:red;\">??? Error using ==> <u>myfun2 at 1<\/u><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>As of R2011b, the formatting is different so it&#8217;s easier to read, and to navigate to the issue. In the same red text, it will now be formatted like:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_command_window\/errors.png\" alt=\"New Error formatting\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The function name will appear as a link that opens the doc page for that function, if available. The line number (if not a built-in a function) will be a link that opens that file in the Editor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orange Warnings<\/strong><br \/>\nWarning text that appears in the command window will be colored orange to make them easier to spot. Like almost all our colors, this is configurable in the Preferences window if you have trouble seeing it: File -> Preferences -> Colors -> MATLAB Command Window colors.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_command_window\/orange_warning.png\" alt=\"Orange-colored Warnings in MATLAB R2011b\">\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Formatted Help<\/strong><br \/>\nHelp displayed in the command window now bolds the function name as it appears in the help text.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_command_window\/help_plot.png\" alt=\"Bold function names in help text\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest release we have a number of new formatting improvements in the MATLAB Command Window.<br \/>\nEasier to read errors<br \/>\nIn old releases if there was an error when running a file, MATLAB would&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2011\/10\/17\/r2011b-command-window-formatting-improvements\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}