Use SMIE's blink-paren for octave-mode. * lisp/progmodes/octave-mod.el (octave-font-lock-close-quotes): Backslashes do not escape single-quotes, single-quotes do. (octave-block-else-regexp, octave-block-end-regexp) (octave-block-match-alist): Remove. (octave-smie-bnf-table): New var, with old content. (octave-smie-op-levels): Use it. (octave-smie-closer-alist): New var. (octave-mode): Use it. Setup smie-blink-matching and electric-indent. (octave-blink-matching-block-open): Remove. (octave-reindent-then-newline-and-indent, octave-electric-semi) (octave-electric-space): Let self-insert-command run expand-abbrev and blink parens.