Re: New development for emacs's octave-mode

[c.]

On 29 Apr 2013, at 19:09, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried the nightly build and I also tried on 
> Aquamacs24 branch built from soures which uses:
> 
>   GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1187.37)
>   of 2013-04-29 on guglielmo.local - Aquamacs Distribution 3.xdev
> 
> with either of those two I don't see font-lock for texinfo docstrings (see 
> attachment)
> is there anything I need to do to enable it?
> 
> thanks!
> c.


the above was with this version:

  http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/lisp/progmodes/octave.el

I now downloaded this one:

  http://bpaste.net/raw/RRvZT8vdSKvo9dl7Lm1A/

and I do get font-lock in texinfo, both with Aquamacs.app and Emacs.app, 
I'll give it a spin and report back.

One first comment, I see you have:

  (defcustom octave-continuation-string "\\"
  "Character string used for Octave continuation lines.  Normally \\."
  :type 'string
  :group 'octave)

as far as I understand use of '...' is preferred to '\' as continuation 
nowadays, 
so you might want to change the default value.

c.