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print-format specifier mistaken as comment in inferior-octave-mode

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 25517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25517: 25.1.91; print-format specifier mistaken as comment
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:19:02 -0500

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> 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)

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