[gnu.emacs.help] Is there a COBOL mode?

john@wpi.WPI.EDU (John F Stoffel) (11/02/90)

Hi there!
	I'm taking a course in COBOL and I'm trying to find a mode to
write COBOL programs in.  Sorta like the C mode for writing C
programs.  Thanks!!

		John

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I dreamt about a reefer five feet long,  | John Stoffel
a might immense, but not too stong,      | john@wpi.wpi.edu
you'll be high, but not for long.        |--------------------------------- 
when you're, a viper...          <-- The Viper Drag    Ain't Misbehaiving

verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) (11/02/90)

Yes.. there is.  It was written by Paul Placeway and Bob Sutterfield.
It is located on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) in
/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes/cobol.el

Cheers,
Mark

karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu (11/02/90)

john@wpi.wpi.edu writes:
   I'm taking a course in COBOL and I'm trying to find a mode to
   write COBOL programs in.

See the GNU Emacs elisp archive.  FTP to tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, pick
up pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes/cobol.el.

--karl

coleman@BALEEN.CS.UCLA.EDU (Michael Coleman) (11/02/90)

While we're at it, is there an RPG mode?  (not RPG II -- I can't stand that
newfangled stuff.)  How about a CMS mode?

By the way,  8-).

--Mike

P.S.  I'm sorry to say, I know there is a FORTRAN mode because I used it when
I was TAing a class here.  8-(

Isn't it pitiful when the editor you are using is a better programming
environment than the *language* you are using??


-- 

Hell has a name.  It's name is "Murphy Hall".

bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (11/02/90)

In article <VERBER.90Nov1175202@capemay.mps.ohio-state.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) writes:
   Yes.. there is.  It was written by Paul Placeway and Bob
   Sutterfield.

Hey Verbs, watch who you're slamming there.  I disclaim all
responsibility for that grotesquery, except for playing middleman
between the instructors who thought they wanted it, and Paul who
really knew better than to write it, but who was just mercenary enough
to crank it out when the faculty thumbscrews were applied.  I'll thank
you not to further slime my reputation in public!

karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu (11/02/90)

bob@MorningStar.Com writes:
   In article <VERBER.90Nov1175202@capemay.mps.ohio-state.edu>
   verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) writes:
      Yes.. there is.  It was written by Paul Placeway and Bob
      Sutterfield.

   Hey Verbs, watch who you're slamming there.  I disclaim all
   responsibility...  I'll thank
   you not to further slime my reputation in public!

Uh, Bob...Bob?  Reality check -- your reputation, such as it is, has
been duly slimed by this piece of code for, oh, at least 2.5 years.
From the file itself:

;;; Cobol mode for GNU Emacs (version 1.01, Jun 21, 1988)
;;; Copyright (c) 1987 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;; Written by Robert A Sutterfield (bob@cis.ohio-state.edu) and
;;;  Paul W. Placeway (paul@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu), as changes to fortran.el

:-),
--karl

john@wpi.WPI.EDU (John F Stoffel) (11/02/90)

Thanks for all of you who posted replys!  

	John

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--
I dreamt about a reefer five feet long,  | John Stoffel
a might immense, but not too stong,      | john@wpi.wpi.edu
you'll be high, but not for long.        |--------------------------------- 
when you're, a viper...          <-- The Viper Drag    Ain't Misbehaiving