dcabe replacement?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Jay Ashworth propounded (on Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:51:55AM -0400):
| ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
| 
| > 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.
| 
| For the record: Icky *poo*.
| 
| I have *enough* trouble getting enough code on the screen to read; why
| the h-e-double-hockeysticks do you think I'm working in vi? :-)
| 
| > 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!
| 
| Well, they seem to be working ok here.
| 
| > 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.
| 
| Gee... where are those?  :-)

I don't know about any macros that Bob ever wrote, but perhaps this
program is relevant:

	cktable  - Check Processing Tables - Bob Stockler - 10/12/2004

That program, and other nice scripts, can be downloaded from
ftp.jpr.com in the pub/filePro directory.

-- 
JP