Re: syntax highlighting under vim

[Paul Laub]

About Octave, vim, and syntax highlighting ...

I remember posting a similar question a few years ago. I should have
simply tried
a web search on "vim octave syntax highlighting". Doing so turns up --

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//octave-sources.1998/msg00011.html

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1241
(In my experience, this script by Soren Hauberg works well.)

Paul Laub

> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:04:50 -0400
> From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden>
> Subject: syntax highlighting under vim
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> 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
>
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/