bug#703: Octave comments in emacs

[Chong Yidong]

Hi Kurt,

Could you take a look at this bug report?

http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703

Thanks.

2008/8/11 Rosen Diankov <rdiankov@cs.cmu.edu>:

> The % also messes up formatting when seen in strings, ie
> 'my value: %d'
>
> For some reason, the octave syntax does not recognize that single
> quotes are strings (it might be because the transpose character is
> also ' and it is hard to differentiate between a string and the
> transposing).
>
> In any case, writing the above example will treat the % as a comment.
> The indenting engine will skip the closing parenthesis )... resulting
> in all the rest of the indents looking like garbage.
>
....
>
> In calculate-octave-indent, just delete the entire expression
>
> ((looking-at "\\s<\\S<")
>        (setq icol (list comment-column icol)))
>
> that forces comments to comment-column (which is 32). Was there a
> reason for this?