Re: From Matlab to Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, May 06, 2008, at 07:53AM, "Jaroslav Hajek" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>  On May 6, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > >
>> > > No! I use vim. But vim does not have good syntax highlighting support
>> for
>> > > octave scripts. So you are probably better off with emacs or some other
>> > > editor. I use vim because I am more familiar with it and do not have
>> time
>> > > to learn another editor.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > I have adopted some of the Vim Matlab runtime files to be more
>> Octave-friendly;
>> > I've also found a quite decent syntax file somewhere on the web (and I
>> > have enhanced that one, too). One day, I'll take the time to share
>> > them at vim.org; for now, I can share non-officially if you are
>> > interested.
>> >
>>
>>  Please do.
>>
>>  Ben
>>
>
>I keep all my ViM customizations (.vimrc and .vim directory) packed at
><http://www.highegg.matfyz.cz/ulozna/fvim.tgz>; I've refreshed it now.
>You can extract anything you want - it includes the popular matchit plugin,
>the octave stuff, some fortran stuff, some c stuff etc. I've made
>enhancements to
>syntax/octave.vim and indent/octave.vim, but I'm not sure what exactly.
>Indenting is better than ViM's matlab default, but there are still rough spots.
>
>Who else is using ViM with Octave? Perhaps we can start a project to
>develop something more mature and sophisticated than random hacks,
>akin to ViM-LaTeX.
>

What? ... there's a ViM-LaTeX?

I can't believe I've been using vi with Octave, Matlab, LaTeX, and in the 
absence of the customizations :-(

I've got some catching up to do :-)

Ben