I'm using octave mode for matlab which works great mostly. However, now I've run into a difference in quoting mechanisms between matlab and octave which makes emacs misinterpret the code and mess up indentation. I'm searching for the first left parenthesis in a string:
startind=find(s=='(',1);
The characters in between the single quotes are not escaped, which makes emacs expect a closing right parenthesis. The right parenthesis doesn't show up and the indentation and syntax highlighting of the rest of the file is off. I tried adding:
(add-hook 'octave-mode-hook
(lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?\' "\"")))
but it makes no difference. I also checked the syntax class of single quote after reloading my init file by evaluating the line below with C-x C-e:
(char-to-string (char-syntax ?\'))
which returns:
"."
And I also checked the syntax class of double quote:
(char-to-string (char-syntax ?\"))
which returns:
"\""
What am I missing here? I'm a copy-paster when it comes to elisp and would be grateful for help.
