Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?

[dick]

EZ> Why not use the Matlab facilities, which AFAIK are significantly more
EZ> powerful and flexible than anything Emacs can reasonably provide?

This question is fatuous given the deep knowledge of its author regarding
emacs and its computing niche.

Emacs knows it cannot hold a candle to specialized editors like Matlab and
Rstudio on features and out-of-the-box accessbility.  Its selling point has
always been UNIX-y interop (cutting and pasting say to a LaTeX doc) for
command line people.

I used matlab-mode right until spring 2015 when Mathworks reformatted their
prompt codes, thereby crippling debug mode.