syntax highlighting under vim

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

In Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122, octave 2.9.9, by default the .m files are
syntax highlighted as if they are matlab files. For example, lines
beginning with # are not highlighted as comments, words like endfunction
etc., are not highlighted as keywords...

Is there any recommended editor for Octave which gets the syntax
highlighting correctly? More importantly, is there any way I can tell vim
that .m files are octave files and not matlab files?

thanks
raju

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