Open new m-file with standard header text in editor

Creates a new m-file with standard function header text.

Description

Creates a new m-file in the current directory. The m-file is created with a standard header text, giving the Matlab version, operating system, author, date and time and, optionally, the author's organization (the values for the author and organization are customizable).

The m-file created is opened automatically in the Matlab editor.

The following is the contents of the m-file named 'myprogram.m', created with the command
  newmf myprogram

function [] = myprogram()
%
% myprogram.m--
%
% Syntax:
%
% e.g.,

% Developed in Matlab 7.12.0.635 (R2011a) on GLNX86.
% Ada Lovelace ([e-mail]), 2011-12-09 12:29
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

[Jan Simon]

See also: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4908-m-file-header-template , http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12323 , http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6408

[Kevin Bartlett]

Thanks for pointing those out. I searched the FileExchange for similar functions before posting newmf.m, but InsertHeader (which does not do quite the same thing) was the only one I found. I guess I didn't look hard enough.