[Matlab-emacs-discuss] EmacsLink after R2008b

[Christina R. <Chr...@ma...>]

Hi everyone,

I posted a couple of months ago to the older MATLAB Emacs group, but I also wanted to let this group know that R2008b will be the last release in which EmacsLink works with MATLAB. EmacsLink was primarily used on Windows, and it allowed basic debugging of M-code from within Emacs.

EmacsLink has never been a supported MathWorks product, and unfortunately recent refactoring and feature work in the MATLAB Editor have required that we cease to interface with EmacsLink. Eric Ludlam's MATLAB Emacs mode will not be impacted and offers some level of debugging support by running MATLAB without the desktop, but it is substantially different from EmacsLink in that Emacs is controlling MATLAB instead of MATLAB interfacing with Emacs.

I apologize for the inconvenience that this will cause for current EmacsLink users. We will continue to monitor the interest in this type of integration for the future-please feel free to e-mail with use cases as to why you prefer EmacsLink over the MATLAB Editor (as well as any requests that you have for the MATLAB Editor itself).

Thank you,

Christina Roberts
MATLAB Editor Team Lead
The MathWorks, Inc.
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