R2014b: up-arrow in command line now ignores case (never did before)

Assume that the following two lines are in the command history:

> R = rand(100,1);

> r = min( R );

Later I want to recall the first of the two commands. In R2013a and earlier versions if I typed

> R<up-arrow>

the command line would respond with

> R = rand(100,1);

Now with R2014a

> R<up-arrow>

yields

> r = min( R );

Apparently the history command line completion is now ignoring case. I do not like that. Is there someway that I can get the old behavior back?

[dpb]

Don't know about any switches inside to change behavior but certainly investigate the preferences options (wherever they've now hidden access to it; I also don't know what all has been done to the UI since R2012b which was bad enough).

If can't find it and correct it, submit an official bug report (it would be a bug "fur shur" if it isn't user-settable to retain case sensitivity. That would be at the "contact" link on the official site www.mathworks.com

[Peter Muellers]

There is an option to make the up arrow matching case sensitive.

In R2014a:

1. Up arrow to display the Command History
2. Select the small down arrow in the upper right to display options
3. Choose "Match Case"

We also plan to expose this option under Home->Preferences->Command History in a future release.

[dpb]

Why in the world would it ever be anything but what w/ Matlab being case-sensitive? It certainly should default that way on installation.

[Jesse Hopkins]

agreed. This goes right after changing the 'tab key inserts spaces' default preference. At least we can change it.