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

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:19:02 -0500

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)