diff --git a/runtime/syntax/matlab.vim b/runtime/syntax/matlab.vim
index 0e281c1..7d20368 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/matlab.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/matlab.vim
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 " Vim syntax file
 " Language:	Matlab
-" Maintainer:	Maurizio Tranchero - maurizio.tranchero@gmail.com
+" Maintainer:	Maurizio Tranchero - maurizio(.)tranchero(@)gmail(.)com
 " Credits:	Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg <peppe-vim@wielders.org>
 "		Original author: Mario Eusebio
-" Change History:
-" 		Sat Jul 25 16:14:55 CEST 2009
-"		- spell check enabled only for comments (thanks to James Vega)
-"
-" 		Tue Apr 21 10:03:31 CEST 2009
-"		- added object oriented support
-"		- added multi-line comments %{ ...\n... %}
+" Last Change:	Wed Jan 13 11:12:34 CET 2010
+" 		- 'global' and 'persistent' keyword are now recognized
 
 " For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items
 " For version 6.x: Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
@@ -28,6 +23,7 @@
 syn keyword matlabOO			classdef properties events methods
 
 syn keyword matlabTodo			contained  TODO
+syn keyword matlabScope			global persistent
 
 " If you do not want these operators lit, uncommment them and the "hi link" below
 syn match matlabArithmeticOperator	"[-+]"
@@ -42,7 +38,7 @@
 
 " String
 " MT_ADDON - added 'skip' in order to deal with 'tic' escaping sequence 
-syn region matlabString			start=+'+ end=+'+	oneline skip=+''+ contains=@Spell
+syn region matlabString			start=+'+ end=+'+	oneline skip=+''+
 
 " If you don't like tabs
 syn match matlabTab			"\t"
@@ -61,10 +57,10 @@
 
 syn match matlabSemicolon		";"
 
-syn match matlabComment			"%.*$"	contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab,@Spell
+syn match matlabComment			"%.*$"	contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab
 " MT_ADDON - correctly highlights words after '...' as comments
-syn match matlabComment			"\.\.\..*$"	contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab,@Spell
-syn region matlabMultilineComment	start=+%{+ end=+%}+ contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab,@Spell
+syn match matlabComment			"\.\.\..*$"	contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab
+syn region matlabMultilineComment	start=+%{+ end=+%}+ contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab
 
 syn keyword matlabOperator		break zeros default margin round ones rand
 syn keyword matlabOperator		ceil floor size clear zeros eye mean std cov
@@ -109,6 +105,7 @@
   HiLink matlabSemicolon		SpecialChar
   HiLink matlabComment			Comment
   HiLink matlabMultilineComment		Comment
+  HiLink matlabScope			Type
 
   HiLink matlabArithmeticOperator	matlabOperator
   HiLink matlabRelationalOperator	matlabOperator