Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?

[John Culleton]

On Friday 07 August 2009 12:20:17 pm Duke Normandin wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:01:52PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > >> Actually THE (The Hessling Editor) is similar to Xedit, a
> > >> mainframe editor found on VM/CMS.  The editor is similar to
> > >> the ISPF editor.
> > >>
> > >> If you are looking for a full ISPF environment (UN*X,
> > >> WIn32), you can find it here [1].
> >
> > I had some trouble getting syntax highlighting, and a few other
> > things, to work at first and almost gave up on it.  But I
> > eventually got it to behave itself.  It's syntax highlighting
> > even works well with c, python, etc., once I tweaked a few
> > color settings.  I think I've finally found a favorite editor. 
> > It's enough like ISPF where I feel right at home.  The only
> > thing I haven't found yet is a syntax highlighting file for
> > e-mail.
>
> You're referring to THE I'm supposing, and not the "full ISPF
> environment"?
>
> > This editor discussion also inspired me to revisit a few other
> > editors I hadn't tried in a while.  I'm using joe for this
> > e-mail.  I've ended up spending most of the afternoon/evening
> > tinkering with editors.  See what y'all started.  :-)
>
> I like `joe' - it might just be super-configurable as well.
>
> > > I sure hope that I can compile it on my OS X box - looks too
> > > cool for words ;)
> >
> > May the source be with you.  The only problem I had compiling
> > it on Linux was that I couldn't get the configure script to
> > believe the --without-x parameter.  I had to end up installing
> > some gnome dev packages to make configure happy so I could get
> > it compiled.  That wouldn't have been quite so annoying except
> > I don't use Gnome, I use DWM.
>
> My exact problem! I want to run it on a terminal, using `curses'.
> I'll have to fool around with the "configure" options.
Vim/Gvim comes with both command line and gui versions out of the 
box. You say "vim" for a console session and "gvim" for a gui 
version. 


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