[Info-vax] cobol.vim for VIM

[IanMiller]

On 6 Mar, 03:06, Michael Austin <maus... at firstdbasource.com> wrote:
> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>
>
>
> > Years ago "Mark Vilstrup Svanesteen" wrote..
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Date: May 3 2005, 7:55 am
> > Subject: cobol.vim for VIM
> > To: comp.os.vms
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I downloaded VIM6.3, but it seems impossible to get it to display
> > COBOL-code
> > correctly. I've been googling all day, but I can't find anything that
> > really
> > works.
> > VIM places red lines all over my COBOL-code. If I try:
>
> > :hi error none
>
> > , the red lines disappear allright, but now words are only partly
> > colored.
> > This happens every 6. line I believe.
>
> > I've also tried putting:
>
> > let cobol_legacy_code=1
> > and
> > unlet cobol_legacy_code
>
> > in my .vimrc and .gvimrc - files.
>
> > Maybe its in my .vimrc-files
> > ---------------------------------------------------
>
> > But I could not reply to that, hence a new topic.
>
> > I just tried VIM (7.0 + syntax 7.2) on COBOL and the color
> > highlighting was very ugly to begin with. The cobol syntax really
> > wants the 'ANSII' style layout where the columns matter a lot and a
> > space is a space, not a tab. Not the largely free-format we VMS folks
> > are used to.
>
> > I could make it 'almost bareable' with a quick HACK.
> > I do not claim to understand this, and the solution is by no means
> > complete or perfect,  but it is a lot better than it was.
> > Basically replaced the markers for 4 - 6 space by 1 or 2 [spaces OR
> > tab]
>
> > -------
> > syn match   cobolMarker     "^\%([       ]\{,1\}[^       ]\)\@=.\{,2}"
> > nextgroup=@cobolStart
> > syn match   cobolSpace      "^[  ]"  nextgroup=@cobolStart
> > syn match   cobolAreaA      "[   ]\{1\}"  contained
> > nextgroup=@cobolAreaA, at cobolAreaAB
> > syn match   cobolAreaB      "[   ]\{2,\}\|- *" contained
> > nextgroup=@cobolAreaB, at cobolAreaAB
> > syn match   cobolComment    "[/*C].*$" contained
> > -------
> > The pieces of string above looking like "[  ]" contain not two spaces,
> > but a space and a tab.
>
> > But... it still is a mess. Specifically the KEYWORDS defined with
> > CONTAINING are recognized in any piece of string, and not only when
> > started and ended on some word boundary.
>
> > So take  piece of code like; PERFORM 41000_CLOSE_ALL_FILES ...
> > There 41000 is highlighted in RED (constant !?), CLOSE and ALL in
> > YELLOW (keywords) and FILES in white for simple variable name. Yuck!
>
> > If anyone has tweaked a COBOL.VIM for use with OpenVMS Cobol, then I'd
> > love to try it!
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Hein.
>
> Does anyone know what ever happened to LSE?  There was also a COBOL code
> generator IIRC...  I learned COBOL using these tools... well, good
> enough that I could read it and attend a Rdb SQL class :)


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