Change in up arrow command history functionality with release 2014a

It appears that the pressing the up arrow in the command window doesn't work the same as in prior versions. It used to be that when you started typing and pressed the up arrow, MATLAB would bring up exact matches to what you started typing. Now it brings up anything close to what you typed.

For example, say I'm debugging a mex file. I use commands like this:

make somefunc; % wrapper for 'mex' command

somefunc(testdata);

In prior releases, I could start typing 'make', hit up, and the 'make somefunc' line would come up. Then I could start typing 'somefunc', hit up, and the somefunc(testdata) line comes up. Now when I start typing 'somefunc' both 'make somefunc' and 'somefunc(testdata) come up, which means I have to cycle through all the commands whether I start typing them or not.

Is there any way to revert to the old up key behavior? Normally I have much longer strings of commands I use when debugging, and having to cycle through all of them is really a pain.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

These are settings you can change. Here's mine which is the pre14a settings: