Re: What should be the extension of octave files?

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Feb-2006, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

| For example, if you were a vim developer and you see a .m file, should 
| the syntax highlighting correspond to that of matlab or should it 
| correspond to octave? What do other editors like emacs etc., do in these 
| cases?

By default, Emacs starts the Objective C mode for .m files, but you
can specify your own default.  You can also tell it what mode to open
by using a tag like

  ### -*- octave -*-

or by using local variables

  ### Local Variables: ***
  ### mode: octave
  ### End: ***

You could also have Emacs start a special mode for all .m files that
looks at the contents of the file and decides which actual mode to
use.

jwe



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