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

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:00:37 Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> Any major-mode recommendations?

You can use my own cobol.el ( http://t-e-k.biz/els/cobol.el ).
Just load it with (load-library "cobol.el").  It is very old, and not
of much use (it used obsolete syntax highlighting that was removed).
It has 2 useful commands: `parse-cobol-data' and `parse-cobol-proc',
assign them to keys (I used Alt-D and Alt-P) and check it.  If you you
want to add more setting you can use the 'cobol-mode-hook'.  On loading
it associate files with .cbl / .eco / .cp* with the cobol mode.  You
can add your own suffixes (look near the bottom of the cobol.el).

>
> Any other environment recommendation?

I suggest to write a small script for compilation that will have all
your defaults and have as it 1st argument the source name to compile.

Ehud.


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