From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Feb  9 23:00:07 2006
Subject: Re: emacs mode doesn't recognize '
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>, bugs@octave.org
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:52:25 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On  9-Feb-2006, Bill Denney wrote:
>
>| As far as I can tell, emacs mode doesn't recognize the tick (or apostrophe 
>| or single quote) character, ', as a string delimiter like it does for 
>| quote, ".
>| 
>| I realize that the parsing of this could be tricky because of the 
>| transpose operator, but is this something that is fixable or just a known 
>| bug that we live with?
>
>It's a known problem and has been reported and discussed before.  It
>could be fixed if you are willing to do enough work to properly parse
>the Octave code in the Emacs buffer.  It's not important enough to me
>that I'm interested in fixing it.  The Matlab mode (also freely
>available, I think) does distinguish between ' for strings and ' for
>transpose, so you might get some ideas there.
>  
>

Yes, the Matlab mode does do this correctly, and it is GPL. I think I 
included a link to it the last time this came up. I think it would be 
really nice to create two separate syntax highlighting modes for # 
octave comments and % matlab-style comments, and perhaps different 
highlighting for '' and "" strings. This would help people who are 
trying to write code that runs in both octave and Matlab.

-Quentin



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