Re: [open-cobol-list] cobol.el for emacs - for OpenCOBOL

[Ulf Dambacher]

Bill Klein schrieb:
> I would have sworn that I had read somewhere about a (relatively new)
> "cobol.el" file for OpenCOBOL and emacs.  I have searched the OpenCOBOL
> website and done google and can't find one.
>
> I can find:

[...]

> I found another one that says it supports ANSI'85 COBOL pointed to by
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CobolMode
> and the cobol.el is at:
>  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/cobol-mode.el
>
> but that doesn't include support for any of the OpenCOBOL features that
> aren't in ANSI'85.
>
> So my question is, is there an OpenCOBOL "cobol.el" anywhere?  If not, is
> the one listed above the best around - or don't any of the people in this
> list use "emacs" for COBOL editing?


I use the one from emacs-wicki because I could not find any better.

I modified it to have some more keywords. the patch enclosed so you can learn 
how to add  what you're missing.

/Ulf

--- cobol-mode.el       2007-12-25 20:52:30.000000000 +0100
+++ /home/ulf/.emacs.d/cobol-mode.el    2009-02-07 22:14:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
      "DIVIDE"                "DIVIDE INTO"           "DIVIDE GIVING"
      "DIVIDE GIVING REMAINDER"                       "ENTER"
      "ENTER COBOL"           "EVALUATE"              "EXIT"
+     "GO"
      "GO TO"                 "IF"                    "INITIALIZE"
      "INSPECT"               "INSPECT TALLYING"      "INSPECT REPLACING"
      "INSPECT TALLYING REPLACING"                    "INSPECT CONVERTING"
@@ -222,7 +223,8 @@
      "SET DOWN"              "SORT"                  "START"
      "STARTBACKUP"           "STOP"                  "STRING"
      "SUBTRACT"              "SUBTRACT FROM"         "SUBTRACT GIVING"
-     "SUBTRACT CORRESPONDING"                        "UNLOCKFILE"
+     "SUBTRACT CORRESPONDING" "UNLOCK"
+     "UNLOCKFILE"
      "UNLOCKRECORD"          "UNSTRING"              "USE"
      "USE DEBUGGING"         "USE AFTER EXCEPTION"   "WRITE"
    )