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Importing/Exporting color themes for the MATLAB editor

Is there a way (maybe undocumented?) of importing/exporting color themes for the MATLAB editor?

As an example, I would like to import the Zenburn color scheme in MATLAB.

Solution

  • The color settings are saved in the matlab.prf file. You can find its location by running the command:

    prefdir

    There are a number of lines that start with the word Colors, for example:

    ColorsBackground=C-16506839
ColorsMLintAutoFixBackground=C-3454186
ColorsText=C-8153962
ColorsUseMLintAutoFixBackground=Btrue
ColorsUseSystem=Bfalse
Colors_HTML_HTMLLinks=C-7102047
Colors_M_Comments=C-10981771
Colors_M_Errors=C-2346449
Colors_M_Keywords=C-8021760
Colors_M_Strings=C-13983336
Colors_M_SystemCommands=C-7613747
Colors_M_UnterminatedStrings=C-2935166
Colors_M_Warnings=C-27648

    You can save those lines as your "theme" and then share them with others. They just have to replace the Colors* lines with yours.

    I would recommend opening the matlab.prf file in some text editor and then sorting the lines to make it easier to select only the lines of interest.