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I've been working with matlab-mode and matlab-shell for the last few days, and I'm really digging it so far. The only two things I can't get to work properly are completion - neither in shell, nor in .m files - and jumping to function definitions, and I would really appreciate some help with these. when I hit TAB in shell, my text turns into

>> emacsdocomplete('EEG.(cond')

and when I hit RETURN I get (the appropriate):

emacs_completions_output =
 java.lang.String[]:
   'cond'
   'condeig'

but it's not integrated into the shell properly, i.e. I can't choose which of the above I want, I have to re-type the command along with the chosen completion. In .m files I just get nothing except for the word completion for words already in the buffer - which I've configured myself.

I've read somewhere that the completion is meant to be related to CEDET somehow but I couldn't make out much more (I'm working on Doom Emacs, and I seen to have CEDET installed, and can run matlab-cedet-setup, which does nothing as far as I can tell).

As to function definitions - I don't even know where to start.. I've read that ctags now supports matlab, but I don't know where (if) the actual .m files for the built-in functions reside in the install dir.

Ideally I'd love to be able to stand on a function name and be able to get the "help funcName" output in another buffer or something (this works from the shell).

Thanks a lot!

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  • I am experiencing something similar. For example AC of "norm" returns: Company: An error occurred in auto-begin Company: backend company-matlab-shell error "Internal error, ’emacsdocomplete('nor')’ returned unexpected output, ut = java.lang.String[]: 'norm' 'norm2' 'normalize' 'normalizeDFT2Coefficients' 'normalizeWords' 'norminv' 'normlms' 'normpdf' 'normplot' 'normprod' 'normr' 'normrank' 'normrnd' 'normspec' 'northarrow' " with args (prefix) user-error: Cannot complete at point Mark set
    – Ajned
    Commented Nov 18, 2020 at 14:44
  • Did you manage to find a solution to this? Thanks
    – Ajned
    Commented Oct 2, 2021 at 6:46

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The problem is that the output is read-only in Doom Emacs. As a workaround use inhibit-read-only.

I did it like this:

(defadvice! inhibit-real-only-a (oldfun &rest r) 
 "Temporary remove read-only lines in shell buffer"
 :around#'matlab-shell-collect-command-output
  (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (apply oldfun r)))
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  • How does this work? Are we supposed to put it in out init file? If so it has not worked for me. I am using GNU emacs 27.1. Thanks
    – Ajned
    Commented Oct 2, 2021 at 6:32
  • @Ajned, it works only with Doom Emacs, where you have to add it to config.el
    – estownya
    Commented Jun 24, 2022 at 7:36

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