matlab/octave tips

• Octave mode (emacs)
• Matlab mode (emacs)

Octabe mode (emacs)

matlab editor is a great debugger, however, emacs is my editor. This is my problem. There is an emacs like mode in the matlab editor. However, I usually use emacs to edit m files. To make the file exchange smooth, the tab should be expand to spaces. Using file local variable, I put the followings at each m file's end.

%% Local Variables: **
%% mode:Octave **
%% indent-tabs-mode: nil **
%% End: **

matlab mode (emacs)

There is a matlab mode from mathworks. Full install seems a bit cumbersome for me, so I installed only matlab mode.

• Download (see the http://matlab-emacs.sourceforge.net/).
  • Login the repository by CVS (empty password), then .cvspass is created and you can check out the code.

        cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@matlab-emacs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/matlab-emacs login
              

  • Check out the matlab mode elisp code.

        cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@matlab-emacs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/matlab-emacs co -P matlab-emacs
              

• Add the load path and autoload (an example. The path is depends on your environment.)

    (setq load-path
          (append load-path
                  (list
                   "C:/users/userhome/lib/site-lisp/matlab-emacs"
                   )))
    (autoload 'matlab-mode "matlab" "Enter MATLAB mode." t)
    (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.m\\'" . matlab-mode) auto-mode-alist))
    (autoload 'matlab-shell "matlab" "Interactive MATLAB mode." t)
       

• Other infomation
  • http://matlab-emacs.sourceforge.net/
  • http://matlab-emacs.sourceforge.net/faq.html