Auto Complete in MATLab

Hello,

I am quite new in MATLab. I want to know how can I turn on auto complete for MATLab. Like when I type "[", It will automitacally shows "]". Please help me to do this.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Those features are available in the Live Editor, but are not currently available in the editor for traditional scripts.

[Alpha Boy]

You mean I cannot find this feature in Installed MATLab?

[Rik]

If you are using live scripts, you can. Otherwise, probably not.

[Walter Roberson]

When the upper left says "EDITOR" like the above, the feature is not active.

When the upper left says "LIVE EDITOR" like this, then the feature is active.

To create a Live Script, use New -> Live Script

[Alpha Boy]

Thanks a lot. One more question. What is the basic difference between Live scripts and editor or command window?

[Walter Roberson]

Live Scripts are for more interactive work. They display results as they go. They can be marked up with equations and text and pictures.

... They are also slower than regular MATLAB (but R2020a improved performance.)

[Alpha Boy]

OK, Thanks :D

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Maybe what you're looking for is the autocomplete of a function, like when you type

>> vr=VideoReader( 

then hit the tab key and get a list of arguments, methods, or properties.

[Walter Roberson]

The user requested

Like when I type "[", It will automitacally shows "]"

Live Script does that, but the normal editor does not do that.

[Parth Behede]

I'm unable to turn ON the autocomplete of a function feature in my MATLAB R2021a. It was'nt turned on by default as well. Can someone help me with this? I really need to fix this issue.

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

Note that that feature is not available in the traditional editor at this time, only in Live Script.

[Stanislav Buklovskyi]

Ok, so Tab is accepting the suggestion/ What if I want to ignore the suggesion using the keyboard?

[Image Analyst]

@Stanislav Buklovskyi you should be able to just keep typing as you were planning. Just ignore any suggestion. Eventually the suggestions will go away when they are not applicable to where your cursor is on the line of code.