About

A set of plugins that add COBOL support to HackEdit.

Features:

• pyqode.cobol editor integration (syntax highlighter, code completion, goto, code folding,...)
• support for OpenCOBOL 1.1 and GnuCOBOL 2.0 compiler (MSVC based compiler are also supported on Windows)
• support for custom parsers + premade setups for DBPRE and EsqlOC
• two builtin workspaces:
  • project mode: specify which files are part of the project and compile them all at once.
  • single file mode: compile the current editor (very similar to OpenCobolIDE)
• support for multiple compiler configuration (you can choose which config is the main one and you can select secondary configuration to be run when you build your project/file).
• tool for computing field offset

In the future, we plan to add the following features:

• GnuCOBOL 2 debugger integration
• Support for standard build tools (makefile, autotools)

Requirements

• hackedit

Installation

pip3 install hackedit-cobol --pre --upgrade

The plugin does not provide the GnuCOBOL compiler, you need to install it by yourself:

• on Windows, the plugin will try to use the compiler bundled with OpenCobolIDE.
• on OSX, you can easily install the compiler by running brew install gnu-cobol or brew install gnu-cobol --devel for GnuCOBOL 2.0
• on GNU/Linux, you should use your package manager or install from source if it is not available (you will likely find the open-cobol or gnu-cobol package)