Emacs Octave mode

[Daniel Friedman]

I would like to know how to change two things in the Emacs Octave mode.
I posted a question to comp.emacs but have received no
response--perhaps my questions are a bit esoteric for that
newsgroup--hence I turn here.

I'm running Emacs version 20.3.1., and I'd like to achieve some small
customizations by changing my .emacs, not by changing system-wide files.
               
1) In octave-mode, the hash mark (#) is used to start a comment.  I want
to change this to the percent symbol (%), yet still have the indentation
and fontification work asbefore.  I tried putting
    (setq octave-mode hook
        '( lambda () (setq octave-comment-char ?%) ))
in my .emacs but this didn't do the trick.
               
2) How can I change the indentation so that, for example, "endif" is
indented the same amount as "if"?  Yet, not cause all functions to be
indented ?
               
Many thanks,
--dan

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