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Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?
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John Culleton |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL? |
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Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:23:22 -0400 |
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On Thursday 06 August 2009 11:37:39 am Duke Normandin wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, John Culleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 06:00:37 pm Duke Normandin wrote:
> > > Any major-mode recommendations?
> > >
> > > Any other environment recommendation?
> >
> > EMACS vs. VI is almost as old as Unix. I use Vim (Gvim)
> > because I learned VI way back when. But as they say in an even
> > older language "De gustibus non disputandum est."
>
> I also took 4 years of Latin in H.S. I guess I've just joined an
> "old farts" club - with Latin, COBOL, kicking around; and me
> hacking M(umps) code as well. ;))
>
> I use VIM as well. I have nothing against it, really. How is it
> as a COBOL programming environment?
It highlights key words and colors the entire line red if boundaries
are exceeded. A new line takes the indentation of the previous
line. It decides what syntax to use from the suffix of the
file, .cbl, .cob etc.
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, Kevin Monceaux, 2009/08/06
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, David Essex, 2009/08/06
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, Duke Normandin, 2009/08/06
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, Kevin Monceaux, 2009/08/07
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, Duke Normandin, 2009/08/07
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, John Culleton, 2009/08/07
- Re: [open-cobol-list] Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?, Duke Normandin, 2009/08/07
Re: [open-cobol-list] Hybrid Editor XE(Was: Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?), Kevin Monceaux, 2009/08/07
Re: [open-cobol-list] Hybrid Editor XE(Was: Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?), Duke Normandin, 2009/08/07
Re: [open-cobol-list] Hybrid Editor XE(Was: Anybody use emacs to code COBOL?), Kevin Monceaux, 2009/08/07