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COBOL Source editing for Visual Studio Code

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This unofficial extension provides syntax highlighting for Rocket ® COBOL based COBOL languages (previously Micro Focus COBOL), with some support for other COBOL dialects such as ACUCOBOL, RMCOBOL, COBOL-IT and ILECOBOL.

Plus related syntax highlighting for other related languages/file formats such JCL, PL/I and directive files and Unit Test Reports.

Some of the features this extension provides are:

• Colourisation and problem matchers for the following Rocket COBOL dialects:

  • Visual COBOL
  • ACUCOBOL-GT
  • COBOL-IT

• Colourisation for:

  • RMCOBOL
  • ILECOBOL support to help fellow IBMi COBOL developers

• COBOL tab key support (configurable)

• COBOL source navigation support

  • Shortcuts/Commands for navigation to divisions
  • Fixed format margin support
  • Outline view/breadcrumb support
  • Text based find all references
  • Peek definition
  • Copybook navigation

• Intellisense support for keywords in lowercase, uppercase and camelcase

• Snippet support for various keywords

  • including callable COBOL library routines
  • and intrinsic functions

• Source code linter for in house/internal COBOL standards

• Compiler directive file colourisation

• Unit test report colourisation

• Drag & Drop filename into source code inserts copybook verb

• COBOL Source Utilities

  • Remove column numbers
  • Remove program identification area
  • Remove all comments
  • Text based rename paragraphs/sections and variables
  • Make all keywords/fields/sections uppercased, lowercased or camelcased
  • Re-sequence column numbers
  • Optional xedit'ish key bindings
  • Align storage items
  • Text to hex literals & reverse

• Documentation for using development containers with Visual COBOL

• and more..

While also being able to use it with the official Rocket COBOL extension (for debugging for example).

Examples of features provided

Code colorization for COBOL, PL/I and JCL

Intellisense example

Breadcrumb support

Outline support

Enhanced Minimap with Structure Boundaries

The extension enhances VS Code's minimap and overview ruler to display COBOL program structure boundaries, making navigation of large COBOL programs much easier.

Features:

• Division markers (orange) - Shows major divisions on the left side of overview ruler
• Section markers (blue) - Shows COBOL sections on the right side of overview ruler
• Paragraph markers (purple) - Shows COBOL paragraphs on the right side of overview ruler
• Click navigation - Click any marker to jump directly to that location
• Fully customizable colors - Configure colors through VS Code settings

Configuration:

{
  "coboleditor.enable_minimap_section_boundaries": true,
  "coboleditor.enable_minimap_section_boundaries_for_sections": true,
  "coboleditor.enable_minimap_section_boundaries_for_paragraphs": true,
  "coboleditor.enable_minimap_section_boundaries_for_divisions": true,
  "coboleditor.minimap_section_colors": {
    "division": { "light": "#FF6F00", "dark": "#FFB74D", "alpha": 0.08 },
    "section": { "light": "#0066CC", "dark": "#4FC3F7", "alpha": 0.05 },
    "paragraph": { "light": "#8E24AA", "dark": "#CE93D8", "alpha": 0.03 }
  }
}
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