Júlio Hoffimann wrote:
> I'm a user of the GNU Octave programming language (http://www.gnu.org/
> software/octave/). It's known as a free alternative to MATLAB. In
> fact, almost all the syntax of the later is supported by Octave,
> except the classdef syntax.
>
> Actually, VIM hasn't a filetype for Octave and we have to use the
> matlab filetype which not recognizes many Octave keywords. There is a
> syntax and OMNIFUNC file for Octave, maintained by an Octave
> developer: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3600. It's
> pretty complete.
>
> How could we solve this? It would be straightforward to just create a
> new filetype for octave and make both filetypes (octave,matlab) use
> the same syntax file (octave.vim)? Maybe experienced VIM developers
> could gather the best of the two to make a great syntax file? Sadly, i
> have no enough experience with VIM plugins and filetype detection to
> help solve this by myself.
Is Octave a superset of Matlab? Then the best is to make Octave syntax
and plugin files, and have them load the matlab files where that makes
sense.
How can you recognize an Octave files?
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