{"id":2769,"date":"2016-11-18T10:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:14:52","slug":"using-variable-highlighting-to-help-with-organizing-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/11\/18\/using-variable-highlighting-to-help-with-organizing-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Variable Highlighting to Help with Organizing Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many uses of variable highlighting in the MATLAB editor is to help with moving code around. When you select variables, it shows you where they are used in the rest of the code, and therefore where it is safe for you to move those lines to.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Variable highlighting in the editor<\/li>\n<li>Code folding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"5216223587001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/11\/18\/using-variable-highlighting-to-help-with-organizing-code\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/ad5026b4-5e59-409e-aa6d-65e9734addb7\/8b32e0f4-6272-43ff-a6a5-3ff031125bdc\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">5:26<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>One of the many uses of variable highlighting in the MATLAB editor is to help with moving code around. When you select variables, it shows you where they are used in the rest of the code, and&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2016\/11\/18\/using-variable-highlighting-to-help-with-organizing-code\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}