function opentoline(file, line, column) %OPENTOLINE Open to specified line in function file in Emacs. % This is a hack to override the built-in opentoline program in MATLAB. % % Remove this M file from your path to get the old behavior. editor = system_dependent('getpref', 'EditorOtherEditor'); editor = editor(2:end); if nargin==3 linecol = sprintf('+%d:%d',line,column); else linecol = sprintf('+%d',line); end f = which(file); if ~isempty(f) file=f; end if ispc % On Windows, we need to wrap the editor command in double quotes % in case it contains spaces system(['"' editor '" "' linecol '" "' file '"&']); else % On UNIX, we don't want to use quotes in case the user's editor % command contains arguments (like "xterm -e vi") system([editor ' "' linecol '" "' file '" &']); end end