File Applications/TextEdit/TextEdit.m Simple Text editor TextEdit Open an empty editor window TextEdit(filename) Open the file content inside a new editor window TextEdit(string or cellstr) Display the string inside a new Editor window TextEdit(..., name) Give the TextEdit a name TextEdit(..., options) with options have 'name' and 'appdata' fields (see below). It is possible to link the editor to a variable so that its content is transfered into it upon changes and close. To do so, speficy the options.appdata = 'name'; Then retrieve the content and clean it with: getappdata(0, options.appdata); rmappdata(options.appdata); $ Initially from: Jorge De Los Santos $ $ E-mail: delossantosmfq@gmail.com $ $ Blog: http://matlab-typ.blogspot.mx $ $ Rev. 0.0.1 $ 02/08/2014 $ Improved with Java component thanks to Yair Altman comments. by E. Farhi Institut Laue-Langevin BSD, 2017 Rev 1.0 Orig: http://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47614-textedit Modified by E. Farhi, 2016 into english