Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] Support for "strings" in matlab/emacs mode + feature poll

[Uwe B. <ou...@ma...>]

>>> "EL" == Eric Ludlam <el...@ma...> writes:

   > Hi everyone,

   > Uwe recently merged in some updates for matlab-mode into the git
   > master branch.   Thanks Uwe!

Thanks Eric, that was nothing. The effort is yours alone.

BTW there is small and annoying differences between the sourceforge and
the github repository, in the sense that the graph is not the same, since
somebody committed some time ago a changeset to github which is not in
sourceforge, so I merged and synchronised but as I said the graph is not
entirely the same


   > I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a try!  To get "string" to
   > work, I had to start over on the indentation & font-lock support in
   > 'char vector' and %comment as well as basic navigation with C-M-f and
   > C-M-b.  A side effect is (paren), [array] and {cell} matching is much
   > more robust, and we now support `show-paren-mode' and `blink-paren'
   > modes instead of the old block highlighter.

   > All these changes means it would be great for folks to try it out
   > and let me know if anything goes wrong!

Ok I will only have a change to test this in around 2 weeks.

BTW since you are in developer mode, there was something I was missing
recently. I try to look it up what is was.

   > And while I have your attention, I'd like to get some feedback about
   > matlab mode.  We'd like to make some updates to the default values of
   > some variables.  While I was in there, I'm thinking of also deleting
   > support for ancient systems.  Here's a short list of things I was
   > thinking could be changed and cleaned out:

   > * XEmacs support

As a former long term user of Xemacs, I hesitate to support is. In my
opinion, it should be left as it is if a certain feature cannot be
implemented for Xemacs so be it, but don't remove Xemacs compatibility code.

   > * indent function body - always by default (no more question)
   > * functions have end - switch to t by default
   > * auto-fill - off by default, or maybe on only in comments

In comments I consider it as useful.


   > * matlab block highlighting - superseded by show-paren-mode.  Anyone w/ an ancient emacs need this?
   > * matlab-eei support - MATLAB stopped supporting this in the mid 2000.  Anyone still using this?
   > * matlab-complete-symbol & M-TAB binding - Anyone using this, or has everyone migrated to newer completion tools?  Which one?
   > * tempo templates ?


   > Does anyone have flags on any of the above? Is there a new shiny emacs
   > tool that should be supported instead of some old thing? Please let me
   > know!

   > Thanks
   > Eric


Thanks 

Uwe