>>> "d" == dick writes: EZ> Why not use the Matlab facilities, which AFAIK are significantly more EZ> powerful and flexible than anything Emacs can reasonably provide? > This question is fatuous given the deep knowledge of its author regarding > emacs and its computing niche. In fact I feel increasily strange of defending the use of GNU emacs on the *emacs dev* list > Emacs knows it cannot hold a candle to specialized editors like Matlab and > Rstudio on features and out-of-the-box accessbility. Well I beg to differ, although part of the statement is true, GNU emacs has the huge advantage of being extenable, I often find myself in a situation what while checking matlab files, I need to edit them and the way is to write a simple lisp function, job done. That is hardly possible in say matlab internal editor. > Its selling point has always been UNIX-y interop (cutting and pasting > say to a LaTeX doc) for command line people. Again for me it is its universal swiss knife feature and its extenability, but taste can differ, obviously. > I used matlab-mode right until spring 2015 when Mathworks reformatted their > prompt codes, thereby crippling debug mode. Well it is back, have you a look yourself. And if you are not satisfied, to quote RMS[1], «it will be faster if *you* help» Footnotes: [1] improvising a bit, not sure about its exact wording.