Re: gvim and gedit

[Quentin Spencer]

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> > There is a GPL matlab-mode for emacs that gets this right:
> > http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/files/104/matlab.el
>
>
> That is spectacular - 5,793 lines of elisp (including comments).  
> That's a lot of work.
>
> Here's a question:  Does matlab.el offer things that we do not get 
> with the Octave mode in emacs?  It looks Octave mode has been in the 
> regular emacs distribution since 19.35:

Well, for starters, the matlab mode supports % comments and 
single-quoted strings, which octave-mode does not. Since a lot of my 
code gets used in both environments, I usually use the matlab-compatible 
versions, so I prefer the matlab emacs mode for that reason alone. It 
also seems to highlight a broader range of things, and does some things 
better like correctly detecting when a "end" keyword is the end of a 
block or the magic array indexing end. Since it's all GPL, if someone 
were ambitious they could integrate some of those features into octave 
mode. They both do things the other doesn't, so a combined version would 
be very nice.

-Quentin



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