How to close editor from the command line?

I accidentally opened a huge file in the editor and it won't close, and when I restart Matlab the editor reopens the huge file. Is there a way to close the editor from the Matlab prompt? If it matters, I have several mfiles open in different tabs of the editor, but fine to close them all.

[jessupj]

do we have an update to this for 2022ish and later versions?

>> com.mathworks.mlservices.MLEditorServices.closeAll
Unrecognized function or variable 'closeAll'.

Answer 1

[Joseph Cheng]

you can call com.mathworks.mlservices.MLEditorServices.closeAll

you can read up all about this on the http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/accessing-the-matlab-editor page

incase the editor ties you up so you still cannot access the command window then try creating a start up file http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/startup.html or move the large file from where it is so matlab "errors" when trying to load the file

[K E]

Great, thanks.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Use the MATLAB Editor API introduced in release R2011a.

[Walter Roberson]

https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2011/04/11/introducing-matlab-r2011a/