SUPERBOL first use

[Eugenio Di Lorenzo]

I have a new computer with WINDOWS 11.
I installed VSCODE.
I added the SuperBOL Studio OSS extension from inside VSCODE.
Now I can open and edit a GnuCOBOL source code from VSCODE.

Then I downloaded gnucobol-3.2-aio-20240402-user.msi from https://superbol.eu/developers/windows/ and installed GnuCOBOL 3.2

Executing from a "cmd" session the following command : cobc prog1.cob -x works fine.
Then the prog1 program executes ok.

UPDATE:
Exit and re-enter from VSCODE.
Now from VSCODE menu: Terminal --> Run Build Task executes a regular compilation.

[Michael Del Solio]

That's a good result!!

As a tip for people who like to use the fixed format:
vertical lines can be displayed in the editor for the special COBOL columns.

To do this, add the following to the settings.json of VS Code:

"[cobol]": {
    "editor.rulers": [
        6,7,11,72,80
    ]
},
"editor.guides.indentation": false,

Simon has already posted this here, too:
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/help/thread/0e3e3ebf1f/?limit=25#9a4c/47f5

This is nice and helpful for fixed format programs in my opinion.

One idea would be for the SuperBOL Studio extension to automatically recognize fixed and free formats and dynamically adjust the setup :-)

[Marco Antoniotti]

Or you issue M-x cobol-mode on a real editor 😏

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM Michael Del Solio mds711@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

That's a good result!!

As a tip for people who like to use the fixed format:
vertical lines can be displayed in the editor for the special COBOL
columns.

To do this, add the following to the settings.json of VS Code:

"[cobol]": { "editor.rulers": [ 6,7,11,72,80 ]},"editor.guides.indentation": false,

Simon has already posted this here, too:

https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/help/thread/0e3e3ebf1f/?limit=25#9a4c/47f5

This is nice and helpful for fixed format programs in my opinion.

One idea would be for the SuperBOL Studio extension to automatically
recognize fixed and free formats and dynamically adjust the setup :-)

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