Changing several occurrences of the same variable at once

Hi Everyone,

   Very recently, I began using MATLAB at work and am wondering what setting allows me to highlight a variable, change it to a new name, and have the option to press "Shift+Enter" (I think...) and it will change all occurrences of that same variable to the new name. My laptop version at home does it; I would like to set it to function on my work computer as well.

Thanks for the help,

BL

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

This applies to 2012b and may apply to other versions as well:

1. Open the Preferences window (in the ENVIRONMENT ribbon tab), or type preferences on the Command Line,
2. Expand Editor/Debugger in the left panel of the Preferences window,
3. Highlight Language to open Editor/Debugger Language Preferences,
4. Check the box Enable automatic variable and function renaming.

That should allow you to do what you want.

[Walter Roberson]

Variable renaming was also in R2012a, but I think that might have been the first version for it.