GNU Octave syntax highlighting files repository

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Nov-2011, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

| For Octave developers: Could be possible to implement a function
| called function_names() or similar in order to obtain a list with all
| the Octave function names, keywords, etc.?

You could try __list_functions__.

How accurate do you expect highlighting to be?

Suppose you write some perfectly valid code like this:

  save foo.dat bar

  save ("foo.dat", "baz")

  save = 1;

  save

  clear save

  save ("foo.dat")

On which of the lines above should "save" be highlighted as a command,
a function, or a variable?  Once a symbol has been used as a variable
in a given function or script, I suppose it should afterward be
highlighted as a variable unless it is cleared.  What if the clearing
is done with something like

  names_to_clear = {"save", ...};

  clear (names_to_clear{:})

?

:-)

jwe