Subject: Re: bug#14332: 24.3; Octave indentation bug

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 01:29:45 -0400

> It seems treating \ as escape outside strings is incorrect. Is the
> following fix is correct?
[..]
> -    (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\" table)
> +    (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "." table)

Wouldn't that mess up the case of

  a = "hello\"there";

?

        Stefan