Thread Subject: two command windows?

Is there a way I can have two command windows open in only ONE matlab session ??
If not, is there a way to 'split screen' with command windows the way we can for m-file editors ?

I'm tired of opening a NEW matlab session, reloading all the variables from the workspace, and running commands in the new command window to compare their answers to the ones in the coommand window of the original matlab session. I'd like to have two command windows side by side without having to open a second matlab session.

This is because I have a page worth of results in my command window, and I want to compare them two another page full of results generated from the same program.. and right now what i have to do is open another matlab session and put the command windows side by side.

Juliette Salexa wrote:
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> This is because I have a page worth of results in my command window,
> and I want to compare them two another page full of results generated
> from the same program.. and right now what i have to do is open
> another matlab session and put the command windows side by side.

Wouldn't it be far simpler (and less likely to miss small differences)
to output the data to files and use a file comparison tool???

Many ways seem far simpler than the eyball way even if is way to split
the command window (which I don't think there is)...

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dpb <none@non.net> wrote in message <h3b8s3$9mk$2@news.eternal-september.org>...
>
> Wouldn't it be far simpler (and less likely to miss small differences)
> to output the data to files and use a file comparison tool???
>
> Many ways seem far simpler than the eyball way even if is way to split
> the command window (which I don't think there is)...
>
> --



In general you'd be right .. but in my case that would just complicate things:
-I shouldn't have to make a new file and then delete it later on just to do this.
-The file comparison tool is a good idea, but i'm looking for trends .. no tool will be able to do what i can with the human eye and brain
-I need the matlab command window so that I can apply commands interactively.. for example, if I have some data in command window 1, then i apply commandA in command window 2... realize after comparing that commandA didn't do what I want, then apply commandB... compare the two, then apply commandC and so on in a trial & error-type manner.

I think it would be a useful tool.

On Jul 12, 12:17 pm, "Juliette Salexa" <juliette.physic...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> dpb <n...@non.net> wrote in message <h3b8s3$9m...@news.eternal-september.org>...
>
> > Wouldn't it be far simpler (and less likely to miss small differences)
> > to output the data to files and use a file comparison tool???
>
> > Many ways seem far simpler than the eyball way even if is way to split
> > the command window (which I don't think there is)...
>
> > --
>
> In general you'd be right .. but in my case that would just complicate things:
> -I shouldn't have to make a new file and then delete it later on just to do this.
> -The file comparison tool is a good idea, but i'm looking for trends .. no tool will be able to do what i can with the human eye and brain
> -I need the matlab command window so that I can apply commands interactively.. for example, if I have some data in command window 1, then i apply commandA in command window 2... realize after comparing that commandA didn't do what I want, then apply commandB... compare the two, then apply commandC and so on in a trial & error-type manner.
>
> I think it would be a useful tool.

Why must you have only one Matlab session running?
Couldn't you do what you want with two Matlab sessions running,
switching between the two?

My workaround is to copy/past to contain to the command window to the editor. The editor can be split in two, and display to containers side-by-side. Simple but it works.

Bruno