Mistetected Octave/Matlab code snippet

Hi,

This code doesn’t appear to have syntax highlighting, as far as I know (as it appears on my gitea install with v9.11.0, at least), yet it is a valid Octave script:

%% function cellarray = removeregexp(cellaray, expression_array)
% Removes matching expressions from cell array strings.
% If a string in the cell array is or becomes empty, it is removed from the cell
% array.
function cellarray = removeregexp(cellarray, expression_array)
  cellarray = regexprep(cellarray, expression_array, '');
  cellarray(cellfun(@isempty, cellarray)) = [];

The leading %% should give it away (Though TeX might be a contender). The end/endFunction is optional, and omitted here. It also appears that functions that do not have leading comments are more easily misdetected.

[joshgoebel]

@MayeulC If you’d like to submit a PR that bumps the relevancy of %% when it starts a new line by just a little and that doesn’t break the brittle balance fo auto-detect that might be useful here.

But first you might want to start by seeing how far apart you currently even are between matching Matlab and whatever else it’s matching. You have loaded the matlab grammar JS file - or bundled it, yes? I realize your initial message says “code doesn’t appear to have syntax highlighting” rather than that it was highlighted incorrectly.

Otherwise not sure how we can improve this much. Your code sample is just hard to identify without more context. (as all small code samples often are)

[joshgoebel]

Closing as resolved/answered.