Re: New development for emacs's octave-mode

[Olaf Till]

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:12:09AM +0800, Leo Liu wrote:
> On 2013-05-02 08:45 +0800, c. wrote:
> [snipped 32 lines]
> > try automatic indentation on this code:
> >
> > if (true)
> > a = (1 \(2-3)); 
> > else
> > a = 0;
> > endif
> >
> > it seems the sequence '\(' is misinterpreted and I get the result in
> > the attachment.
> 
> Should be fixed. Please update your octave.el.
> 
> On 2013-05-02 19:44 +0800, Olaf Till wrote:
> [snipped 9 lines]
> > Hi Leo,
> >
> > I'v just seen that it doesn't always work:
> >
> > a(1, end) -> 'end' not highlighted
> >
> > a(1, [1, end]) -> 'end' highlighted (always if 'end' is within [])
> >
> > I know nothing of emacs mode programming, so perhaps a stupid thought,
> > but since in indentation it seems to be always correctly recognized if
> > 'end' is _not_ part of an index expression, can't this information be
> > used for highlighting?
> >
> > BTW I don't know if its better to highlight 'end' within index
> > expressions or not.
> >
> > a = 'abc' -> highlighted as string
> >
> > 'abc' -> not highlighted
> >
> > "abc" -> highlighted as string
> >
> > Olaf
> 
> Hopefully all these issues are resolved. Please update octave.el.

Seems all fixed.

But with some "wicked" code, one can still make the
single-quote-highlighting stumble:

a = a'; -> correctly not highlighted

a = a '; -> '; highlighted as string

(Leaving a space between a and ' is not usual, but valid.)

Olaf

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