I agree FORTRAN syntax in the matlab editor would be really good, but in the meantime you can customise editors like gedit to fortran highlighting specific to mex files.

I’ve published an example on the file exchange:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24332

Cheers!

Tom

Great. Just don’t forget to note it in the release details :) So I could start making my HDL syntax highlight script.

Regards,
Igal.

The MATLAB Editor doesn’t currently support pluginging in custom syntax highlighting. We are currently working to make this possible.

-Ken

Does any one know how I can add an additional language and a custom syntax coloring for that language? Something similar to what is usually done in Crimson Editor?

I really miss Verilog and VHDL syntax highlighting, especially since both can be generated in SImulink HDL Coder, but require 3rd party editor to be conviniently readable.
I don’t mind making such syntax highliting script myslef, and posting it at Matlab Central, provided I knew its fromat how to add it to the Matlab Editor.

Igal.

You can’t change which words are highlighted, though you can change the color of the highlighted words. The brace colors are not changeable either. Please submit an enhancement request here.

-Ken

The one thing I am most interested in being able to do is have parentheses and braces appear in different colors as they are often very hard to distinguish (particularly on monitors set to high resolutions).

We’re currently working hard to make it easier to add support for additional languages in the MATLAB Editor.

Thanks for the feedback!
-Ken

As all the other matlab users out there who have to work with different programming languages – I would really appreciate if you could add syntax highlighting for more languages in the matlab editor. For me syntax highlighting for fortran (90 and 77), shell-scripts and make files would already very useful – so that I do not need to split my screen in parts for matlab and emacs so often :-).

Bjoern