Subject: bug#25517: 25.1.91; print-format specifier mistaken as comment

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:35:01 +0100

On 24.01.2017 14:19, [email-masked] wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> See also png attached
>>
> It looks like the problem is that octave-mode-syntax-table sets single
> quotes as punctuation even though GNU Octave's manual says single quotes
> are string syntax [1].
>
> [1]:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/String-Objects.html
>
> Does this fix it?
>
> --- i/lisp/progmodes/octave.el
> +++ w/lisp/progmodes/octave.el
> @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ octave-mode-syntax-table
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?| "."   table)
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?! "."   table)
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "."  table)
> -    (modify-syntax-entry ?\' "."  table)
> +    (modify-syntax-entry ?\' "\""  table)
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?\` "."  table)
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?. "."   table)
>       (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"" table)
>

Thanks. That should be a useful cure in octave-mode.

A resp. fix seems needed in inferior-octave-mode-map.