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Development Environment Tools Enhancements
MATLAB 5.2 provided enhanced environment tools for the PC (Microsoft Windows 95 and NT) platform and introduced environment tools for the UNIX platform. These enhancements are described in detail in Chapter 2 of the online (PDF) version of Using MATLAB.Changes to the MATLAB Editor/Debugger
With MATLAB 5.2, the Editor/Debugger provided a new Tools menu. Some of the options that were under the View menu in previous releases on the PC are now found under the Tools menu. MATLAB 5.2 provided a tabbed dialog that allows you to set General and Editor options. You do so from the Tools menu, by selecting Options. You can now use MATLAB to add your own commands to the Editor, by using the Customize option that appears as a submenu of the Tools menu. Commands that you add will also work with the Path Browser and Array Editor although the results may differ. Chapter 2 of Using MATLAB provides a table that explains these differences. You can set up the Editor so that the values of MATLAB variables are expanded and displayed in the Editor window as the cursor hovers over a variable. To do so, under General options, check Show Data Tips. Also under General options, if you check Show worksheet style tabs, the main Editor window displays a tab at the bottom for each open file. This allows quick navigation among all open files. You can also control the Editor's font, style, and size. In previous releases of MATLAB, font control was available only for the command window. In MATLAB 5.2, you could select Font from the Tools menu to control Editor fonts.Array Editor Added
MATLAB 5.2 provided an Array Editor. This tool allows you to view and edit two-dimensional numeric arrays.New Tools for UNIX Environments
Several tools that were available on PCs in earlier versions of MATLAB were made available in MATLAB 5.2 for some UNIX machines (Sol2, Sun4, SGI, and HP 700):SGI64 Fully Supported
MATLAB 5.2 provided full support for the SGI64 platform. The SGI64 platform was supported only as a Beta product in previous MATLAB 5 versions. Note The Symbolic Math Toolbox 2.0.1 and Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox 2.0.1 are not available for the SGI64 platform; however, the SGI image can be used on the SGI64 platform.