Re: Notepad++ language formatting

2023-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 6/5/23 11:10:03, Charles Mills wrote: ... XML ... Ah! The language name I was looking for. Thanks. Now, GIYF, the jargon seems to be "plugin" in place of "macro". And, for self-reference, there appears to be a plugin, presumably coded in XML, to format XML code. -- Thanks again,

Re: Notepad++ language formatting

2023-06-05 Thread Charles Mills
I suspect we are boring the cr@p out of everyone else but > I wouldn't regard those two as different Well, I suppose. I see a big difference between "if you see the string 'GETMAIN' or "FREEMAIN' or "ATTACH' highlight it" and "highlight any line that beings with .*" but yeah, diff'rent strokes

Re: Notepad++ language formatting

2023-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 6/5/23 09:30:05, Charles Mills wrote: There are potentially three meanings for "macro" in this thread. 1. Part of what the formatting does is highlight z/OS macro names in the code. So if you code GETMAIN it knows that is a keyword, not some random token. There is a list of z/OS macro

Re: Notepad++ language formatting

2023-06-05 Thread Charles Mills
There are potentially three meanings for "macro" in this thread. 1. Part of what the formatting does is highlight z/OS macro names in the code. So if you code GETMAIN it knows that is a keyword, not some random token. There is a list of z/OS macro names in the file that makes that magic work.

Re: ChatGPT "knows" HLASM

2023-06-05 Thread Breton Imhauser
Not too long ago, I asked it for some ideas on processing specific SMF records ( in hlasm, of course ), and to my surprise, it had its first response had the DSECT field names correct. I was pleasantly surprised with the entire "conversation" and end result; haven't messed with it since though.