[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60712] Editor : highlight statements that are not terminated by semicolon

[PIERRE LABRECHE]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #60712 (project octave):

Actually there are two problems with this approach:
1. I don't expect a regular user to type a complex regexpr such as this ? 
Octave is used a lot in teaching environments for introductory programming. 
Even experts have difficulty in remembering the regexpr syntax after a while.

2. This regexpr has a lot of false finds, such as statements broken on
multiple lines, if and switch statements with their else and case clauses,
functions and endfunctions, classdefs and properties, ... and so on !

An editor feature to visualize statements that produce console output because
they are not terminated by a semicolon  would be very useful.



[comment #5 commentaire #5 :]
> You might find it useful to use the search tool in the editor (Ctrl+F), and
use regular expression matching to find lines with something like
"^[^#%].*[^;]$".

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