[Geany] Octave and comment character.

[Nick Treleaven]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:44:23 +0200
Laurent Hoeltgen <hoeltgman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > That setting only controls what Geany uses to 'comment out' lines. The
> > highlighting comment char is hardcoded, however I've just seen that the
> > source file has two lexers - Matlab and Octave. We only use the Matlab
> > one.
> > 
> > We could either add Octave as a separate filetype or just make the
> > Matlab filetype use Octave highlighting (the first is safer but a bit
> > messy if the two syntaxes are virtually the same). What do you (and
> > other users) think?
> 
> I think the important question in this context is how many people are
> really using geany for their Matlab code. Matlab has its own gui with
> built in editor... Furthermore, geany executes matlab files in Octave
> anyway. So why not just marking the filetype inside geany as octave and
> using the octave highlighter?

Sounds good to me, and IMO we should favour open-source software over
proprietary anyway. If there are no objections I may change this in the
0.19.1 release.

Regards,
Nick