
Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB
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The MATLAB Desktop’s Variable Editor
The tight-coupling of the Variable Editor to the Desktop Workspace variables is unfortunate
in some respects.
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One would perhaps expect it to be a generic data editor that merely accepts
the data when opened, but in fact it continues to be coupled even later. We can see this by modi-
fying the variable in the Desktop Workspace and seeing the change automatically reected in
the Variable Editor.
An unfortunate side-effect of this design is that the Variable Editor needs to interact with the
Desktop Workspace (probably via JMI). Since there is only