how to highlighting object property

Is there any way to highlight properties in class definition. In the example below, if I select property1, the rest of the occurance of property 1 won't be highlighted. This could be useful when I have a very long class definition.

classdef TestObj < handle
    properties
        property1=100;
        property2;
    end
    
    methods
        function self = TestObj(value1)
            self.property1=value1;
        end
        function fun2(self, value2)
            self.property2=value2;
        end
    end
end

[jianfu tseng]

I have the same trouble. Do anyone know how to highligh the properties when that be selected by mouse left click?

[per isakson]

Didn't the answer by @Anant Upadhyay help you?

[Anton Lausbua]

@per isakson the answer also did not help me either. The highlighting does work only for local variables not for class properties. Is there another option to turn this on?

Answer 1

[Anant Upadhyay]

Hi Yunarui,

According to my understanding, the requirement is that if a certain property of a class is selected, then the rest of the definitions of that property should be highlighted. MATLAB supports this feature for all version from MATLAB R2010b release.

The highlighting option can be set using following steps:

• Select “preferences” in the “Home” Tab of your MATLAB editor.
• Under “MATLAB” section in “preferences”, select “Colors” -> “Programming Tools”.
• Check the option “Automatically highlight”, if unchecked.
• Apply and Save the changes.

The highlighting does have some limitations. It will only find the matching names in code that are in scope. For instance, if you have pass a variable “x” to a subfunction as input argument “x”, the highlighting feature will only highlight the “x”s in either the main function or the subfunction, but not both. And, it won’t recognize that “x” in a comment or string passed to the eval function.