TextMate for Octave was Re: Octave Editor on Mac Leopard OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Matt Foster wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Siddhartha wrote:
>
> > is there something that can be done to get the editor on a
> > Mac with Leopard OS X? I know that on PC's simply typing
> > "edit" gets you to it, but for some reason it isn't working
> > on my mac. I have a intel processor on the mac, with GNU
> > plot, gfortran, and Xcode 3.0 currently installed as well.
>
> Either from Octave's command prompt, or in your ~/.octaverc place the
> line
>
> edit editor "mate %s"
>
> where you substitute you favorite editor for "mate".
>
> For more info, type "help edit" at Octave's prompt.
>
> If you'd like an editor that has syntax highlighting for Matlab/Octave
> give TextMate a try.
>
> Since TextMate's been brought up...
>
> I recently became maintainer of the matlab support bundle for  
> TextMate.
> One of my top priorities is octave support, so I'd love to see as  
> many people as possible using it, improving it and discussing it.
>
> If you're interested in helping, please join the google group:  http://groups.google.com/group/matlab-tmbundle
>
> I'm hoping that together we can make this bundle as useful as some  
> of the really popular ones!
>
> Cheers,

As Octave's syntax is intended to be compatible with Matlab, but  
extends beyond that, it may make sense to produce a special bundle for  
Octave. Some examples are

(1) "!" is used as a logical NOT
(2) "#" is used in a manner similar to "%" in Matlab
(3) "%!" at the beginning of  a line is indicative of a test or demo  
script

What are you thoughts on this?

Ben