dcabe replacement?

[Brian K. White]

On 5/22/2014 5:06 PM, Kroboth, Joe wrote:
> Is there any other development system for FilePro besides dcabe?   I've also been using vim with Brian Whites syntax highlighting for FilePro.  That helps deciphering longer processing tables and making minor changes but the lack of syntax check and layout makes it hard for me for code in.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe

Oh my god that terrible old thing?

I never could get the vim syntax highlighting working the way I really 
wanted. What I REALLY wanted was to make a greenbar effect (not really 
green most likely) where one physical line from a filepro file would 
DISPLAY as 2 lines on the screen, with the greenbar effect to help keep 
the If: & Then: lines visually paired so you could see each pair as a 
single unit at a glance.
All the If's would be one color, all the Then's another color. The 
labels would be a 3rd color and they would be on the same line as the 
IF. Maybe with an empty 7 spaces on every line for pattern consistency, 
maybe not.

I apologize for any crappiness encountered trying to use those vim 
config because I only worked on them for a little while probably 10 
years ago and never touched them again. I don't use them myself!

Though I still would like to. If I could figure out how to manipulate 
the vim display and line counting syntax exotically enough so that vim 
would actually know which line a cursor or bit of displayed text was 
really on, despite the discrepancy between file lines vs display lines, 
I would love to use vim to edit prc tables. It would even be worth 
picking up Bob Stocklers macros for saving, syntax-checking, and 
tokenizing prc tables from inside vim.

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bkw