created by

Søren Hauberg

script type

syntax

description

Syntax highlighting for GNU Octave. It inherits the Matlab syntax highlighting and adds a few extra things like endif etc.

install details

Installation details from Paul Laub - thanks Paul! Here's what to do to get octave.vim working. 1. Put octave vim in vim's syntax subdirectory. 2. Directory above this subdirectory is the main vim directory. Find the file named filetype.vim. Change "matlab" to "octave". With that, files with the *.m extension will be associated with octave.vim. Test by opening an octave file in vim. Keywords like endfunction should be highlighted. 3. (Optionally) modify the file synmenu.vim to include an Octave item in the syntax menu of the GUI version of vim. [I don't use menus so I can't say more about how to do this.] Also, since your script inherits formatting done by the matlab.vim file, I'd advise people NOT  to delete matlab.vim and rename octave.vim to matlab.vim. An alternative is to copy octave.vim to ~/.vim/syntax and add the following to ~/.vimrc: " Octave Syntax augroup filetypedetect      au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.m setfiletype octave augroup END

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
octave.vim	1.0.1	2005-03-21	6.0	Søren Hauberg	I forgot to add end_switch, so I've just added that one. The only thing I think is missing is multiline strings, but I don't know how to do that. (If you do please help me)
octave.vim	1.0	2005-03-17	6.0	Søren Hauberg	Initial upload

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