Restore old editor in R2021b?

R2021b has a new editor compared to R2021a. Is there any way to revert to the previous editor? The new version is much more graphically intensive and feels sluggish compared to the simple text editor in the previous version. Also, it renders the Monospaced font differently than the previous version, resulting in the editor font looking completely different to the command window font, which hasn't changed, despite them both using Monospaced.

For comparison, the editor from R2021a:

and the editor from R2021b:

If there is no way to revert the look of the editor, is there at least a way to have it use the same Monospaced font as the command window?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Set the fonts by clicking on Preferences in the ENVIRONMENT section of the MATLAB toolbar (at the top of the window in the HOME tab). Then highlight Fonts and under it Custom to change different settings.

The new installation did not import any of my old preferences, so I had to reset all of them. Fortunately. I had many of these saved as text commands, so just running those restored most of them. The others I had to set manually.

The download and installation were much faster than previous versions (a few minutes rather than about an hour).

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[Jack Walsh]

Thanks, I realized too what was happening with the fonts. Both the editor and command window were using the same font (Monospaced), but the editor was displaying Consolas while the command window was displaying Courier New.

Still, is there any way to use the old editor, or make the new one more like the old one? Can the smooth scrolling feature be disabled, for instance?

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

I have no idea. I installed R2021b a few hours ago, and haven’t had time to experiment with it (beyond restoring some of my old preferences manually). It seems a lot like the previous version, other than some cosmetic tweaks. The feature that used to launch a small version of the Help browser isn’t as useful as previously, however everything else seems to be present, although changed to some extent.

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Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

I changed these settings and it greatly improved the font for me:

s = settings;
s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.FontToUse.PersonalValue = "CustomFont";
s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.Name.PersonalValue = "Courier New";
s.matlab.fonts.custom.editor.Size.PersonalValue = 12; % in point

[Star Strider]

Interesting!

I’ve not encountered the software version of those. I’ll search through the other options so I can have a backup in case future preferences also don’t get imported.

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