Re: What should be the extension of octave files?

[kamaraju kusumanchi]

Bill Denney wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>
> > I provided the above case just as an example. But everyone is picking 
> > out on the example rather than on my actual question. May be it is in 
> > the way I phrased the question.
> >
> > Is there any separate extension that should be given to octave files 
> > which are incompatible with matlab files?
> >
> > It makes sense to have a .m extension if the octave file is 
> > compatible with matlab. But if it is incompatible what is the point 
> > of having a .m extension? We might as well have a octave specific 
> > extension say .oct indicating outright that the file is incompatible 
> > with matlab.
>
>
> .oct is actually for compiled Octave functions.  There is no 
> different, octave specific, extension.  I think that it would just add 
> to confusion since they are mostly compatible, and the 
> incompatibilities run both ways.
>
> Bill
Perhaps, I was very naive in suggesting .oct extension as I do not know 
that .oct is already used for something else. But some such extension 
would really be useful from an editor point of view.

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?

thanks
raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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