This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3600 This file provides syntax highlighting for the GNU Octave programming language. Features * Highlights entire Octave grammar (endwhile, endfor, etc.) not just Matlab keywords * Updated to highlight all core Octave functions as of version 3.4.0 * Highlights user functions and anonymous functions [@(...)] from within the .m file being edited * Use-dependent highlighting of Octave system variables When querying system variables, keyword is highlighted as a constant. For example, var = true, highlights 'true' as a constant. When setting variables or otherwise invoking keyword as function, keyword is highlighted as function. For example, var = true (2,4), highlights 'true' as function. * Support for multi-line strings with line continuation characters as well as escaped quotes (\" or \') within string. * Support for new multi-line block comments * Error highlighting for bad number syntax, bad structure variable names, bad block comments, bad line continuations. * Optional support for highlighting operators (+, -, *, etc.), user variables, or tabs Errata * Occasionally anonymous functions are highlighted as a function even though the instance is of the name as a variable. This is too difficult to correct without writing a full parser. OMNIFUNC * The syntax file has a list of every valid function in Octave 3.4.0 which makes it useful as an auto-completion dictionary for use with ViM's omnifunc function. Once installed type a few letters of the name of a function and then use Ctrl-X Ctrl-O to bring up a list of possible matches. Addenda This script owes some debt to the two existing Octave syntax scripts: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1241 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1591 However, it has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded considerably.