Maybe you've asked the IBM RFE site to send you an email when someone posts an
RFE, I have done so for PL/I, TSO, HLASM, ISPF, and SDSF, and at the last few
weeks I've been bombarded (in the nice sense) with emails like
RFE created ID:149399 ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines
all posted by Tom Conley, who's been very busy writing REXX code to add
highlighting to numerous languages. The results of his efforts can be found,
among other goodies, in
File # 967 CBT Usermods Collection for ISPF (CUCI)
<http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT967.zip>
And I've contributes a little code to it to make it easier to maintain.
However...
Why can't we ask IBM to open the source of the (little?) part of ISPF that
handles language highglighting, or provide an exit to call a user supplied load
module?
As useful as Tom's code is, it quite likely has a considerable overhead, and
unlike the native ISPF code, it can only look at a screenful of data, which
means that it's highly likely to result in flagging unmatched
parentheses/brackets, etc...
Robert
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Robert AH Prins
robert.ah.prins(a)gmail.com
The hitchhiking grandfather - https://prino.neocities.org/
Some REXX code for use on z/OS - https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html
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