Tags: patch

0. emacs -Q
1. C-x b foo RET
2. M-x octave-mode RET
3. s = "foo C-M-j

This inserts the line continuation marker '...' instead of '\'.

Since Octave 3.8, released over 7 years ago, breaking double-quoted
strings with an ellipsis, or breaking anything else with a backslash, is
deprecated; see https://www.gnu.org/s/octave/NEWS-3.8.html and
(info "(octave) Continuation Lines").

In the Octave 6.1 REPL:

  octave:1> s = "foo...
  warning: '...' continuations in double-quoted character strings are
  obsolete and will not be allowed in a future version of Octave; please
  use '\' instead
  > "
  s = foo
  octave:2> x = [1 \
  warning: using continuation marker \ outside of double quoted strings
  is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of Octave, use
  ... instead
  > ]
  x = 1

I attach a patch which reintroduces the backslash as
octave-string-continuation-marker, alongside the existing ellipsis
octave-continuation-string.

[ I think octave-string-continuation is the perfect name for the
  backslash, but I can imagine it not being very popular ;).
  Naming suggestions welcome. ]

WDYT?

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