[Geany] Octave and comment character.

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:27 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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.

Changed in SVN trunk:
http://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geany?view=revision&revision=5174

On second thought it might be best not to include it in 0.19.1 in case
it breaks anything.

Regards,
Nick