Must be the way people work - vscode works quite well for me with many programming languages - as long as a reasonable extenion is installed and correctly configured - (in my case: bitlang.cobol).
And the setup on Windows is just:
download and extract the best matching package from Arnold
download anbd run the VSCodiium installer (it will update itself [after asking] and all plugins [if not disabled])
double-click "set_env.cmd" in Arnold's package, then start VSCodium
go to extensions, get bitlang.cobol and then open the folder containing your sources via file->open folder, choose your source and edit as needed, then run "build" - you get a message "create task?" where you say yes and choose GnuCOBOL
Obviously for a complex project you'd want to give the task definition more love and likely use a makefile to do the actual build part (which still will be called from VSCodium where all the compiler output will be shown, too).
But some people are not "GUI"-coders, and that's fine, too.
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2020-09-28
UltraEdit, but it's not free.
Run the compiler from within and capture the output
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It looks like the IBM ISPF editor, is small, doesnt need additional stuff like "THE" or other editors and there will be an update soon with some bug fixes and enhancements.
Last edit: The_Piper 2020-10-05
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VSCode has different cobol extensions. This makes it a very versatile editor. The Superbol extension for gnucobol is very promising : https://get-superbol.com/
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Yes, works fine. You can also install it from both M$ marketplace and the Open-VSX registry (=directly from within most vscode binaries, including VSCodium, GitPod and Theia - but I haven't checked if it also works in the later which is not vscode based).
After all: all vscode extensions work with vscode if they don't require one of the proprietary, binary-only other extensions and/or does not refuse to work if the product id doesn't match "Visual Studio Code".
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I am coding mostly in Linux (Fedora or Debian) and my favorite editor is Geany: https://www.geany.org/
It offers syntax highlighting and has powerful features.
I run both, Geany and VSCodium in parallel. The code in VSCodium gets updated automatically in VSCodium and I can start debugging right away.
To have a look into the VBISAM files I use wxMEdit: http://wxmedit.github.io/
It's the perfect tool for that job. The file can be shown in Text (line) mode or in Hex mode and in various encodings.
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I would like to highlight a feature that I only found with OpenCobolIDE.
When you write GnuCOBOL code, OpenCobolIDE immediately reports any compilation error.
I believe OpenCobolIDE does an automatic compilation in the background every one or two seconds. It is very useful.
I don't think there is any other editor that has this feature.
I am wrong ?
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2024-04-18
As I used to work on IBM mainframes, I'm happy with SPFLite2. :-)
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2024-09-07
«I'm happy with SPFLite2.»
It's understandable!
A cigar is just a... cigar!
Mário Matos
:-)
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2024-04-19
I use SPFLite2, very IBM and Bull (EP6) :-)
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2024-04-25
I use nEdit (Nirvana Editor) and a make file.
It uses the Motif GUI toolkit. It is not pretty, but it has features I not available on other editors.
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Do you have a Cobol language set up file available ?
As just installed it (v5.7) an it does not support Cobol.
On 25/04/2024 14:07, noreply@sourceforge.net wrote:
I use nEdit (Nirvana Editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEdit and
a make file.
It uses the Motif GUI toolkit. It is not pretty, but it has features I
not available on other editors.
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2024-04-27
I do not think that COBOL syntax highlighting support was ever included in the source code.
I do not use syntax highlighting, just plain text.
I have enclosed the COBOL syntax highlighting code I downloaded from somewhere.
I could not find the URL. Just add the enclosed code to the nedit.rc file, and restart nedit-nc. The COBOL selection should appear at the bottom of 'Preferences > Language Mode' menu.
My favorite features are the search and replace, particularly when using vertical code selection. And read only of a particular tab preventing mistakenly editing the wrong source.
I have been using VI since starting Linux years ago and am used to it.
On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.
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2024-09-07
«On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.»
Time to change?
GnuCOBOL programmers, tend to... sleep!
Honourable exception to...
*Ralph Linkletter *
...wich is an EBCDIC... fan...
...on Windows...
...without knowing GNU libraries...
...to ease his extra work...
...expecting someone to do the job!
The best thing is to sit tight...
...and...wait...
...until he gets the urge!
Stll, I don't thing so!
A CALL... USING man can't wait!
And I'm the same!
I'm sorry, Ralph!
I can't help it!
ICONV is the way!
It's free (with source code available)
Please, don't kill the messenger!
:-)
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2024-09-07
«On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.»
Windows has also free software...
...with source code available...
...like... Linux!
If free is the key...
...with Windows...
...you are free to go...
...wherever you want!
:-)
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2024-09-06
Nobody usig VS Code?
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Pluma under Linux, stock Notepad under Windows. I like 'em, bc they're not interfering with indentation and are very lightweight. I wish I had "Rule Line" crosshair-style.
[resent as this post was strangely removed]
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We're still actively working on it and didn't communicate much about it yet. We plan to do a new release and communicate about it soon. More information on the current features: https://github.com/OCamlPro/superbol-studio-oss
We believe VSCode and our extension are very easy to use even if you never tried VSCode. We're open (at superbol@ocamlpro.com) if you need help getting started and we're interested to hear about new features which would be nice to add.
Last edit: Boris Eng 2024-10-21
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Must be the way people work - vscode works quite well for me with many programming languages - as long as a reasonable extenion is installed and correctly configured - (in my case: bitlang.cobol).
And the setup on Windows is just:
Obviously for a complex project you'd want to give the task definition more love and likely use a makefile to do the actual build part (which still will be called from VSCodium where all the compiler output will be shown, too).
But some people are not "GUI"-coders, and that's fine, too.
UltraEdit, but it's not free.
Run the compiler from within and capture the output
You can also try pipEdit, which is here https://sourceforge.net/projects/pipedit/ or in the tools of GnuCobol.
It looks like the IBM ISPF editor, is small, doesnt need additional stuff like "THE" or other editors and there will be an update soon with some bug fixes and enhancements.
Last edit: The_Piper 2020-10-05
On Windows the Zeus IDE can be configure to run the GnuCOBOL compiler: http://www.zeusedit.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8130
Instead of OpenCobolIDE I use Geany, a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor.
https://www.geany.org/
VSCode has different cobol extensions. This makes it a very versatile editor. The Superbol extension for gnucobol is very promising : https://get-superbol.com/
Does Superbol work with vscodium ?
Yes, works fine. You can also install it from both M$ marketplace and the Open-VSX registry (=directly from within most vscode binaries, including VSCodium, GitPod and Theia - but I haven't checked if it also works in the later which is not vscode based).
After all: all vscode extensions work with vscode if they don't require one of the proprietary, binary-only other extensions and/or does not refuse to work if the product id doesn't match "Visual Studio Code".
I am coding mostly in Linux (Fedora or Debian) and my favorite editor is Geany: https://www.geany.org/
It offers syntax highlighting and has powerful features.
I run both, Geany and VSCodium in parallel. The code in VSCodium gets updated automatically in VSCodium and I can start debugging right away.
To have a look into the VBISAM files I use wxMEdit: http://wxmedit.github.io/
It's the perfect tool for that job. The file can be shown in Text (line) mode or in Hex mode and in various encodings.
I would like to highlight a feature that I only found with OpenCobolIDE.
When you write GnuCOBOL code, OpenCobolIDE immediately reports any compilation error.
I believe OpenCobolIDE does an automatic compilation in the background every one or two seconds. It is very useful.
I don't think there is any other editor that has this feature.
I am wrong ?
As I used to work on IBM mainframes, I'm happy with SPFLite2. :-)
«I'm happy with SPFLite2.»
It's understandable!
A cigar is just a... cigar!
Mário Matos
:-)
I use SPFLite2, very IBM and Bull (EP6) :-)
I use nEdit (Nirvana Editor) and a make file.
It uses the Motif GUI toolkit. It is not pretty, but it has features I not available on other editors.
Do you have a Cobol language set up file available ?
As just installed it (v5.7) an it does not support Cobol.
On 25/04/2024 14:07, noreply@sourceforge.net wrote:
I do not think that COBOL syntax highlighting support was ever included in the source code.
I do not use syntax highlighting, just plain text.
I have enclosed the COBOL syntax highlighting code I downloaded from somewhere.
I could not find the URL. Just add the enclosed code to the nedit.rc file, and restart nedit-nc. The COBOL selection should appear at the bottom of 'Preferences > Language Mode' menu.
i did find a Qt port nEdit-ng and an interesting article Nedit – A Text Editor for Linux with Some Killer Features .
My favorite features are the search and replace, particularly when using vertical code selection. And read only of a particular tab preventing mistakenly editing the wrong source.
«I do not use syntax highlighting, just plain text.»
Seriously?
I can't see a thing...
...without it, nowadays!
But, that's just me!
Mário Matos
:-)
I have been using VI since starting Linux years ago and am used to it.
On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.
«On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.»
Time to change?
GnuCOBOL programmers, tend to... sleep!
Honourable exception to...
*Ralph Linkletter *
...wich is an EBCDIC... fan...
...on Windows...
...without knowing GNU libraries...
...to ease his extra work...
...expecting someone to do the job!
The best thing is to sit tight...
...and...wait...
...until he gets the urge!
Stll, I don't thing so!
A CALL... USING man can't wait!
And I'm the same!
I'm sorry, Ralph!
I can't help it!
ICONV is the way!
It's free (with source code available)
Please, don't kill the messenger!
:-)
«On Windows I use VIM in command shell, but if have a lot to do I have SPFE 365, which is free and I think ISPF on the mainframe is the BEST editor.»
Windows has also free software...
...with source code available...
...like... Linux!
If free is the key...
...with Windows...
...you are free to go...
...wherever you want!
:-)
Nobody usig VS Code?
see some posts above "vscode" or "vscodium"...
«Nobody usig VS Code?»
Of course there are!
It's almost a standard!
I'm using a paidTextPad whitch does everithing a like it to do... (including COBOL tabs)
...for many years!
It's paid, but it's worth it!
But...
...for newcomers... (with COBOL)
...VSCode (or Chromium for that matter) is the way to go!
https://www.chromium.org/developers/
Mário Matos
:-)
Wild Eest wrote on 2024/09/23:
[resent as this post was strangely removed]
Just I little reminder that at OCamlPro (SuperBOL team), we developed the open source SuperBOL extension on VSCode for COBOL https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OCamlPro.SuperBOL
We're still actively working on it and didn't communicate much about it yet. We plan to do a new release and communicate about it soon. More information on the current features: https://github.com/OCamlPro/superbol-studio-oss
We believe VSCode and our extension are very easy to use even if you never tried VSCode. We're open (at superbol@ocamlpro.com) if you need help getting started and we're interested to hear about new features which would be nice to add.
Last edit: Boris Eng 2024-10-21