Re: gnubol: Cobol mode in Emacs Lisp

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Matthew,
Could you try sending it again - the attachment got lost on its
way here. Is it OK to put it up on my sourceforge project site
when I do that (next few days I expect)? If so could you put a
GPL type copyright notice in it.
Thanks,
Tim Josling


Matthew Vanecek wrote:

> Here's my copy of cobol.el.   It's kindof a work in progress.  Syntax
> highlighting is via regexp, which makes it take a while on large files.
> I've enabled lazy font locking on files over about 130K or so, so it's
> not *too* bad.  I'd like to know how some of these other programs do it,
> that seem to do it almost instantaneously!
> 
> I'm poking at indenting now, to make it more C-like re behavior.  I've
> got it so that no matter where you are on a line, if you hit TAB, it
> will appropriately indent the line.  It's not 100% accurate, but such is
> the nature of COBOL. :(  I haven't quite figured out how to make TAB do
> only line indenting, and not do TABbing.  That's the c-mode and
> lisp-mode behavior.  If anyone knows lisp, and can put together some
> improvements, please please please let me know.  I'm good at reading
> reference manuals, but Lisp is suchabitch to work with.
> 
> Think my new email address has finally settled down.  Feel like I'm
> stuck on AOL or something, with this @Home stuff. :(
> 
> ciao,
> --
> Matthew Vanecek

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