With Vundle:
Add the following to .vimrc
Plugin 'mikea1729/octave.vim'
With pathogen.vim:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/mikea1729/octave.vim.git
syntax/octave.vim is mirrored from: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3600
indent/octave.vim from https://github.com/louima/octave.vim--
plugin/octave.vim Added to automate installation as described below
Following copied verbatim from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3600
description
This file provides syntax highlighting for the GNU Octave programming language.
Features
* Highlights entire Octave grammar (endwhile, endfor, etc.), not just Matlab keywords
* Updated to highlight all core Octave functions as of version 4.2.0
* Highlights user functions and anonymous functions [@(...)] from within the .m file being edited
* Use-dependent highlighting of Octave system variables
When querying system variables, keyword is highlighted as a constant. For example, var = true, highlights 'true' as a constant.
When setting variables or otherwise invoking keyword as a function, keyword is highlighted as a function. For example, var = true (2,4), highlights 'true' as a function.
* Support for multi-line strings with line continuation characters as well as escaped quotes (\" or \') within string.
* Support for multi-line block comments
* Support for highlighting numbers that use hex (0x) or binary (0b) syntax
* Error highlighting for bad number syntax, bad structure variable names, bad block comments, bad line continuations.
* Optional support for highlighting operators (+, -, *, etc.), user variables, or tabs
Errata
* Occasionally anonymous functions are highlighted as a function even though the instance is of the name as a variable. This is too difficult to correct without writing a full parser.
OMNIFUNC
* The syntax file has a list of every valid function in Octave which makes it useful as an auto-completion dictionary for use with ViM's omnifunc function. Once installed, type a few letters of the name of a function and then use Ctrl-X Ctrl-O to bring up a list of possible matches.
Addenda
This script owes some debt to the two existing Octave syntax scripts:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1241
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1591
However, it has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded considerably.
install details
Syntax file install on a UNIX-like system
1) mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax
2) cp octave.vim ~/.vim/syntax/
3) Add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc to get ViM to use the file
----- SNIP -----
" Octave syntax
augroup filetypedetect
au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.m,*.oct set filetype=octave
augroup END
----- SNIP -----
Optional highlighting of operators (+, -, *, etc.), user variables, or tabs can be had by uncommenting the appropriately tagged lines in octave.vim.
OMNIFUNC install on a UNIX-like system
1) Install the syntax file as described above
2) Add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc after the snippet from step 3 above
----- SNIP -----
" Use keywords from Octave syntax language file for autocomplete
if has("autocmd") && exists("+omnifunc")
autocmd Filetype octave
\ if &omnifunc == "" |
\ setlocal omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete |
\ endif
endif
----- SNIP -----