MATLAB: How to reopen MATLAB scripts/function when the editor was accidentally closed

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How to reopen MATLAB scripts/function when the editor was accidentally closed?

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Right now there are only workarounds for this functionality, because the development team is still investigating possible implementations for this feature.
Trying to find a solution, you could save all open files in a mat-file and reopen these after you close this. The issue is, that you have to pro-actively save the editor state.
If you did not do this, there is the following solution which uses a xml-file in the MATLAB preference directory.
In this xml-file the previous state of the MATLAB Editor was saved, so you can reopen all the closed files.
Please add the code to a Favorite in MATLAB, so you have a shortcut which can be easily used.
If you do not know how to add a Favorite, please read through: https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/create-matlab-favorites-to-rerun-commands.html
Here is the code which can be pasted into a Favorite:
%parse XML file
xmlFiles    = xmlread([prefdir filesep 'MATLABDesktop.xml.prev']);
%Retrieve the "clients"
FileNodes   = xmlFiles.getElementsByTagName('Client');
%get the length of the FileNodes
nrFiles     = FileNodes.getLength;
%initialize Files
Files       = cell(nrFiles,1);
%initialize isFile
isFile      = zeros(nrFiles,1);
%Iterate over all Elements and check if it is a file.
for iNode = 0:nrFiles-1 % Java indexing.
    %Files
    Files{iNode+1} = char(FileNodes.item(iNode).getAttribute('Title'));
    %check if the "client" is a file:
    isFile(iNode+1) = exist(Files{iNode+1},'file') == 2 && ~(strcmp(Files{iNode+1},'Workspace'));
end
%remove the other files:
MyFiles = Files(find(isFile));
%open the files in the editor:
edit(MyFiles{:});
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