From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan  4 22:59:15 2005
Subject: "end" keyword problem in Emacs Octave mode
From: Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:01:15 -0800

For some time now I've been bothered by a problem in the Emacs Octave 
mode, specifically that the keyword "end" is not treated correctly when 
it is used to denote the last index of an array dimension.  For example, 
consider the code:

a = 1:5;
for i = 1:length(a)
   a(i:end)
endfor

In emacs octave mode, pressing "tab" or "line-feed" on the endfor line 
results in an "unbalanced block" error.  Emacs thinks that the "end" 
inside the array designation balances the "for" statement.

Have other people encountered this problem and found a workaround? 
Clearly the correct fix would be to patch octave-mod.el to account for 
the dual use of "end", but I suspect this is not easy to do.  I don't 
know enough elisp to fix it myself.

Thanks,
Jonathan

P.S.
Who maintains octave-mod.el?  I see that it is supplied by my octave 
package in Linux.  Should emacs octave mode problems be reported to 
bugs at octave dot org?



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