On 2007-04-18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122, octave 2.9.9, by default the .m files are
> syntax highlighted as if they are matlab files. For example, lines
> beginning with # are not highlighted as comments, words like endfunction
> etc., are not highlighted as keywords...
>
> Is there any recommended editor for Octave which gets the syntax
> highlighting correctly? More importantly, is there any way I can tell vim
> that .m files are octave files and not matlab files?
I don't see any octave syntax files in the standard vim
distribution, but a search of vim.sf.net for scripts containing
"octave" reveals two contributed syntax files for octave:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1241
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1591
Both of those scripts include instructions for adding the octave
filetype to your vim installation. If you need more information on
that, see
:help new-filetype
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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