So here are the changes that I normally make to the default preferences:
However, updating the default preferences is indeed necessary for a fresh install, and since I was asked about this I thought to include this here. The installer is smart enough to detect that installation and copy its preference files to the new installation. This is one step that I do not need to do when installing on a machine having a previous Matlab installation. uitree, uitab and other semi-documented functions (mostly in %matlabroot%/toolbox/matlab/uitools/) such as the useful hgfeval – add a % character at the beginning of line #3, in order to make the help section become visible during help or doc.profview and matlab-report-styles.css (both in %matlabroot%/toolbox/matlab/codetools/) – I’ll post a separate article about this next week, together with some additional undocumented profiling options that I did not cover in my previous article on this topic.I just need to go over the list of functions and re-modify them: I can understand this and I’m not complaining. These changes are naturally not propagated when installing a new Matlab release. I have several standard changes that I often make to Matlab files. Not all computers have 100GB of free disk space, you know… Modifying some Matlab m-files I really hate giving Matlab the adjective of “bloatware”, but its releases keep getting larger and large (R2012b weighs over 800MB!) and I feel that a lot of it, like these Chinese files, could be avoided with only a little bit of extra care on the part of MathWorks. In any case, what has been added to my dislike, are files in Chinese, specifically the helpsearch_zh_CN folder in %matlabroot%/help/ and %matlabroot%/help/matlab/, each weighing a hefty 14MB. This is good, although some large Japanese files remain (e.g., the installation guide PDF and many help files) which a smart installer (or even better – the JNLP downloader) might know to ignore based on my computer’s locale.
Since my complaint last year, I see that some (not all) of the Japanese-language files have been removed from the installation. I won’t bother repeating the list that I published here exactly one year ago. Nothing special compared to past releases, but worth listing anyway I guess. Today’s post will detail some of the post-installation steps I did for the new installation to work properly, for me at least. With Matlab 8.0 (R2012b) now available for download, I once again installed a new release.
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