Re: Writing Matlab-compatible scripts

[Joan Picanyol i Puig]

* kamaraju kusumanchi <address@hidden> [20060316 16:46]:
> Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
> 
> >Regardless of the arguments for a Matlab compatibility switch, a
> >suggestion for people in that position, if they use emacs, is to use the
> >matlab-mode, defined in matlab.el, instead of octave-mode when writing
> >their code.
> >
> I have no intention of starting another flamewar. But is there something 
> similar for vim?

AFAICT (using vim-6.4 from FreeBSD ports), vim comes only with a Matlab
syntax file by default, so you should be safe on this (try it with the
strings or comment syntaxes). I have an octave.vim file in ~/.vim but
I'm sure I had to put it there manually.

qvb
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pica



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