This is a very rough, work-in-progress prototype of a MATLAB IDE powered by the McLab compiler toolkit. It runs locally, with a browser-based UI.

• Syntax checking
• Some basic support for layout-preserving refactorings
• Preliminary code-navigation features, e.g. jump-to-definition
• A MATLAB or Octave shell. (A MATLAB or Octave installation is required for this to work).

A Vagrantfile is provided, which provisions a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with everything required (but not MATLAB; Octave is used instead). If you have vagrant installed, then running the app should be as simple as:

$ vagrant up
# This might take a while...
$ vagrant ssh -c "cd /vagrant && python3 run.py"
* Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/
* Restarting with reloader

and navigating to http://localhost:5000.

This has been tested on OS X (10.9) and various flavors of Linux. It hasn't been tested on Windows -- feel free to try it out and let me know what issues you run into. As preliminaries, you'll need:

• python 3.4.x (including development headers)
• pip
• jdk8
• ant
• npm
• MATLAB (recentish) or Octave (at least 3.8)
• libzmq (required by python-matlab-bridge -- see its README for instructions).

Once these are taken care of, you can run bootstrap.sh. Among other things this installs some python packages, so you may want to run it inside a virtualenv.

Finally, you'll want to place the support/runtime directory somewhere on the runtime path. There are various ways to do this. For MATLAB, you can set the MATLABPATH environment variable, which is similar to the system PATH. For Octave, you can put a call to addpath inside ~/.octaverc.

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