GNU bug report logs - #6869
Octave mode: incorrect "unbalanced block" warning

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Message #8 received at 6869 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Sprague\, Webb \(OFM\)" <Webb.Sprague <at> ofm.wa.gov>
Cc: 6869 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6869: Octave mode: incorrect "unbalanced block" warning
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:11:38 +0200

> I am getting "unbalanced block" warnings when I hit tab on the
> "endfunction" at the end of an m-file (function is cut-and-pasted
> below).  It is on windows, but I don't think that is the cause of *this*
> bug. I have tested the function and it works fine, so I don't think it
> is my octave code.

It's a bug in octave's indentation code, indeed.  It gets confused by
the "end" in the following line:

>   x = data(:,2:end);

I don't know Octave much, as it so happens but I've recently been
playing with a new indentation code for Octave (using SMIE), so I'm
interested in fixing it.  Could you explain to me what is this "end"
(and more generally what the "data(:,2:end)" means: all I can guess is
that it's an array indexing of some sort).
The Octave manual doesn't seem to talk about it.


        Stefan

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