MATLAB: Disable data tips in live editor

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I work with very long symbolic expressions in the Matlab Live Editor. When hovering over variables with the mouse, data tips are showing me a rendered version of the expression. This slows down my computer significantly and fluent editing is hard as rendering takes several seconds.

How can I disable the data tips on hover of symbolic expressions in the Live Editor? I tried Preferences -> Editor -> Display -> Enable datatips in edit mode, but this seems to only affect the "normal" editor, not the Live Editor.

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tl;dr: In Matlab Windows -> View -> Data Tips

I found the related bug report: https://de.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1584013?s_tid=answers_rc2-1_p4_MLT

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To control the behavior of a right-click action when ZOOM is active change the property ‘rightclickaction’ of the zoom mode object.

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MATLAB: Disable automatic Data Tips

There are a few ways to go about this. To do this for individual plots, you can use the disableDefaultInteractivity command as below:

x = 0:0.01:10;
y = sin(x);
figure(1)
plot(x,y)
disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)

If you would like to do it for all of the created plots in a session, use

>> set( groot , 'defaultAxesCreateFcn' , 'disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)' )

However, with that method it will reset everytime you start up MATLAB.

If you would like this to apply whenever you open MATLAB, you'll need to implement it into your startup.m file. Here is an example of how you could implement it (MATLAB version 9.7 is 2019b)

if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.7')
    set( groot , 'defaultAxesCreateFcn' , 'disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)' )
end

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