Hey Crew

I have found editing code within the led editor in Lawson can be cumbersome at best.

I am currently using LopeEdit to edit my cobol/4gl code. Does anyone have any suggestions on anything better??

Thanks.

We've been using UltraEdit-32 from IDM Computer Solutions. It's not specifically designed for Lawson's 4GL, but it is a very useful editor and has not caused us any problems (yet).

I run into this discussion somewhere at leazst once a year.

True, 'led' is NOT the most convenient editor - particularly if you're a "point-n-click" Windows user - but the fact that it's written SPECIFICALLY for Lawson code does mean that there are a goodly number of features that you'll come to depend on if you use it regularly for any length of time. Like the fact that there are no TABS (only spaces), since TABS will kill your compiler when it hits them. Also the fact that it knows exactly where your code is, where all the referenced libraries are (and which ones they are!), and how to format each different code component.

So am I a "died in the wool" 'led' user? - Nope, I'm a 'vi' man, but I only look at code once in a blue moon (if that often). If I spent my entire day in Lawson's COBOL, I'd appreciate the shortcuts in 'led' that make it so handy.

We use EditPlus almost exclusively.
We developed a little bit of a plugin for Lawson so now it does a ton of stuff. You can find the details on our site: http://www.lawadm.com/editplus.html

You can buy editplus through their own site and I can send you the necessary files to highlight lawson sytax, and do autocomplete, and the cliptext and all.

Try looking at this somewhat recent thread here on lawson talk. Covers an overlapping topic on editors:

http://lawsontalk.com/ar/t681.htm