Re: %-Comments in Emacs Octave-Mode

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Oct-2003, Christoph Dalitz <christoph.dalitz@hs-niederrhein.de> wrote:

| Thanks for the hint. I could achieve the same with the entry
| 
|       (add-hook 'octave-mode-hook '(lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?\% "<")))
| 
| in my ~/.emacs file. There is one quibble yet: '%'-comments are indented
| to end of the line rather than left were they are put. Is there a way
| to make '%' comments behave like '##' comments?

Use %% comments, or modify the code so that it does what you want?

| > The problem that the deleted comment
| > refers to has apparently been fixed, so indenting and font locking
| > both appear to work properly now for things like
| > 
| >   sprintf ("%s" "some string")
| > 
| This works correctly, but
| 
|     sprintf ('%s', 'some string')
| 
| not. I am using emacs 20.7 which ships with the latest Debian.

What is your definition of latest?  I think you can get 21.x with the
testing distribution.

the real problem here is that it is much more complicated to decide
whether ' should be a transpose operator or a string delimiter.

I don't really care whether octave-mode supports these features (I'm
happy with " for strings and # for comments) but I would be happy to
accept changes that would make this work better.

jwe