From Matlab to Octave

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
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>  On May 6, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
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> >
> > >
> > > No! I use vim. But vim does not have good syntax highlighting support
> for
> > > octave scripts. So you are probably better off with emacs or some other
> > > editor. I use vim because I am more familiar with it and do not have
> time
> > > to learn another editor.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I have adopted some of the Vim Matlab runtime files to be more
> Octave-friendly;
> > I've also found a quite decent syntax file somewhere on the web (and I
> > have enhanced that one, too). One day, I'll take the time to share
> > them at vim.org; for now, I can share non-officially if you are
> > interested.
> >
>
>  Please do.
>
>  Ben
>

I keep all my ViM customizations (.vimrc and .vim directory) packed at
<http://www.highegg.matfyz.cz/ulozna/fvim.tgz>; I've refreshed it now.
You can extract anything you want - it includes the popular matchit plugin,
the octave stuff, some fortran stuff, some c stuff etc. I've made
enhancements to
syntax/octave.vim and indent/octave.vim, but I'm not sure what exactly.
Indenting is better than ViM's matlab default, but there are still rough spots.

Who else is using ViM with Octave? Perhaps we can start a project to
develop something more mature and sophisticated than random hacks,
akin to ViM-LaTeX.

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz