From help-request at octave dot org Sun Jan  9 16:03:12 2005
Subject: Re: "end" keyword problem in Emacs Octave mode
From: Peter Jensen <peter dot jensen at virgin dot net>
To: Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:05:23 +0000

Jonathan,

A simple solution would be to remove "end" from the
list of recognized "end of indentation" tokens.

This is however not a solution that can go into the distribution,
as imported mat*lab scripts would look odd.......

Peter

Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> 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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