Development Environment

General Preferences for MATLAB

These preferences apply to all relevant tools in the MATLAB desktop.

Display

To show tooltips when you hold the cursor over a toolbar button, check the Show tooltips check box.

Toolbox caching

See Reducing Startup Time with Toolbox Path Caching.

Figure window printing

Specify how colored lines and text are sent to the printer. See the Printing documentation for more information.

Font & Colors

Desktop font.   Desktop font preferences specify the characteristics of the font used in tools under the control of the MATLAB desktop. The font characteristics are:

• Type, for example, Sans Serif
• Style, for example, bold
• Size in points, for example, 12 points

After you make a selection, the Sample area shows how the font will look.

You can specify a different font for the Command Window, Editor/Debugger, Help browser, Workspace browser, and Array Editor using preferences for those tools.

Syntax highlighting colors.   Select the colors to use to highlight syntax. For more information, see Syntax Highlighting.

• Keywords - Flow control and other functions such as for and if are colored.
• Comments - All lines beginning with a % are colored.
• Strings - Single quotes and whatever is between them are colored.
• Unterminated strings - A single quote without a matching single quote, and whatever follows or precedes the quote are colored.
• System commands - Commands such as the ! (shell escape) are colored.
• Errors - The error text is colored.

Click Restore Default Colors to return to the default settings. The following example uses the default values for color preferences.

Source Control

Specify the source control system you want to interface MATLAB to. For more information, see Chapter 9, Interfacing with Source Control Systems.

Setting Preferences

Running MATLAB Functions