Re: VMS editor uncommon option

On 11/6/2024 4:49 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:

I'm already convinced by the IDE concept. I tried to introduce that
in my company without success, total lack of interest. I was starting
from very far, though. People were (and still are, as far as I know)
FTPing files in and out to edit them locally on their desktop PCs.
So they didn't even let me start a proof of concept...

That indicates to me that they they are looking for something more.

What I was more interested in your reply was the purely editing part,
and that seems to have some interesting points that I'd like to try.

Give it a try.

But I'm still very much DECset oriented and will probably miss the SCA
features if I abandon LSE, though, so it will be a difficult choice.

JEdit is no silver bullet.

I'm mainly programming in PASCAL, it that matters.

Not much. It is mostly a general editor.
I updated the list of keywords to match VMS Pascal
better for syntax coloring. But that is about it.
You can customize keywords even more, because JEdit
support 4 different classes of keywords with different
colors.
Arne