Matlab Editor customization

[apjanke]

It would be nice to be able to customize the Matlab editor with M-code scripting. Let's try to do this.

Tentative design:

• Ability to register M-code functions as callbacks in the editor customization
• And bind them to keyboard shortcuts
• And as a bonus, bind them to new toolstrip buttons

The callbacks should be of the form callback(me), where me is a reference to an object that represents the Matlab Editor state and provides methods for manipulating it. Let's call that a Me object.

Me should support:

• Getting:
  • The current editor tab that the cursor/focus is on
  • The name/path of the file in that editor tab
  • The text contents of the editor window (call that the "text buffer")
  • The cursor position within the text buffer
  • The cursor position within the window (i.e. row and column numbers)
  • The current selection (as both row/col range and text buffer character range)
  • The scrollbar position of the editor window
  • Overall editor structure
    • A list of split panes and the editor tabs in each
• Setting:
  • Inserting, deleting, and otherwise modifying the text in the text buffer
  • Cursor position
  • Selection
  • Scroll bar state
  • Which editor tab has focus
  • Opening and closing editor tabs
  • Moving editor tabs between split panes, and around within the order of tabs in a split

It would be a big bonus if Me also exposed a parse tree and class/function model or other representation of the semantic structure of the M-code as it is in the text buffer.

I suppose it should know about Live Editor stuff, too.

[apjanke]

Actually, this should probably be a separate project, so it can be promoted and used independently, and submitted to MathWorks File Exchange as its own entry.