runtime/syntax/matlab.vim

" Vim syntax file
" Language:	Matlab
" Maintainer:	Maurizio Tranchero - maurizio(.)tranchero(@)gmail(.)com
" Credits:	Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg <peppe-vim@wielders.org>
"		Original author: Mario Eusebio
" Last Change:	Wed Jan 13 11:12:34 CET 2010
" 		sinh added to matlab implicit commands
" Change History:
" 		- 'global' and 'persistent' keyword are now recognized

" quit when a syntax file was already loaded
if exists("b:current_syntax")
  finish
endif

syn keyword matlabStatement		return
syn keyword matlabLabel			case switch
syn keyword matlabConditional		else elseif end if otherwise
syn keyword matlabRepeat		do for while
" MT_ADDON - added exception-specific keywords
syn keyword matlabExceptions		try catch
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	"[-+]"
syn match matlabArithmeticOperator	"\.\=[*/\\^]"
syn match matlabRelationalOperator	"[=~]="
syn match matlabRelationalOperator	"[<>]=\="
syn match matlabLogicalOperator		"[&|~]"

syn match matlabLineContinuation	"\.\{3}"

"syn match matlabIdentifier		"\<\a\w*\>"

" String
" MT_ADDON - added 'skip' in order to deal with 'tic' escaping sequence 
syn region matlabString			start=+'+ end=+'+	oneline skip=+''+

" If you don't like tabs
syn match matlabTab			"\t"

" Standard numbers
syn match matlabNumber		"\<\d\+[ij]\=\>"
" floating point number, with dot, optional exponent
syn match matlabFloat		"\<\d\+\(\.\d*\)\=\([edED][-+]\=\d\+\)\=[ij]\=\>"
" floating point number, starting with a dot, optional exponent
syn match matlabFloat		"\.\d\+\([edED][-+]\=\d\+\)\=[ij]\=\>"

" Transpose character and delimiters: Either use just [...] or (...) aswell
syn match matlabDelimiter		"[][]"
"syn match matlabDelimiter		"[][()]"
syn match matlabTransposeOperator	"[])a-zA-Z0-9.]'"lc=1

syn match matlabSemicolon		";"

syn match matlabComment			"%.*$"	contains=matlabTodo,matlabTab
" MT_ADDON - correctly highlights words after '...' as comments
syn match matlabComment			"\.\.\..*$"	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

syn keyword matlabFunction		error eval function

syn keyword matlabImplicit		abs acos atan asin cos cosh exp log prod sum
syn keyword matlabImplicit		log10 max min sign sin sinh sqrt tan reshape

syn match matlabError	"-\=\<\d\+\.\d\+\.[^*/\\^]"
syn match matlabError	"-\=\<\d\+\.\d\+[eEdD][-+]\=\d\+\.\([^*/\\^]\)"

" Define the default highlighting.
" Only when an item doesn't have highlighting yet
command -nargs=+ HiLink hi def link <args>

HiLink matlabTransposeOperator	matlabOperator
HiLink matlabOperator			Operator
HiLink matlabLineContinuation		Special
HiLink matlabLabel			Label
HiLink matlabConditional		Conditional
HiLink matlabExceptions		Conditional
HiLink matlabRepeat			Repeat
HiLink matlabTodo			Todo
HiLink matlabString			String
HiLink matlabDelimiter		Identifier
HiLink matlabTransposeOther		Identifier
HiLink matlabNumber			Number
HiLink matlabFloat			Float
HiLink matlabFunction			Function
HiLink matlabError			Error
HiLink matlabImplicit			matlabStatement
HiLink matlabStatement		Statement
HiLink matlabOO			Statement
HiLink matlabSemicolon		SpecialChar
HiLink matlabComment			Comment
HiLink matlabMultilineComment		Comment
HiLink matlabScope			Type

HiLink matlabArithmeticOperator	matlabOperator
HiLink matlabRelationalOperator	matlabOperator
HiLink matlabLogicalOperator		matlabOperator

"optional highlighting
"HiLink matlabIdentifier		Identifier
"HiLink matlabTab			Error

delcommand HiLink

let b:current_syntax = "matlab"

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