On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:44:23 +0200 Laurent Hoeltgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That setting only controls what Geany uses to 'comment out' lines. The > > highlighting comment char is hardcoded, however I've just seen that the > > source file has two lexers - Matlab and Octave. We only use the Matlab > > one. > > > > We could either add Octave as a separate filetype or just make the > > Matlab filetype use Octave highlighting (the first is safer but a bit > > messy if the two syntaxes are virtually the same). What do you (and > > other users) think? > > I think the important question in this context is how many people are > really using geany for their Matlab code. Matlab has its own gui with > built in editor... Furthermore, geany executes matlab files in Octave > anyway. So why not just marking the filetype inside geany as octave and > using the octave highlighter? Sounds good to me, and IMO we should favour open-source software over proprietary anyway. If there are no objections I may change this in the 0.19.1 release. Regards, Nick _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
