Treat extensionless files as if .CBL

[mfisher]

The COBOL source code files in my workplace have no file extension. I would like for these to be treated in Zeus IDE as though they were of the existing "Cobol Document Type". Is this possible?

What I've tried so far is:

• open a file that does in fact have the .CBL extension
  go to Tools > Options, where settings for the COBOL document type are shown
  take screenshots of all of the tabs
  export the Templates and Keywords
  click OK

• open a file that does not have any extension
  go to Tools > Options, where settings for the default document type are shown
  enter settings of which I had taken screenshots
  import the Templates and Keywords
  click OK

This does cause many things to work for extensionless files, like syntax highlighting, code folding, and autocomplete. But there is one very important feature that does not work: The "Go to Definition" context menu item (F12). (It does work for files that do have the .CBL extension.)

Is there anything I can do instead of, or in addition to, the above?

Thank you. So far it looks like a great programming tool.

[jussij]

The COBOL source code files in my workplace have no file extension. I would like for these to be treated in Zeus IDE as though they were of the existing "Cobol Document Type". Is this possible?

Yes that is possible, but the solution is a bit combersome

Assuming your files is called something like: C:\temp\My_COBOL

To make that work as a COBOL source file you would need to do this:

1. Edit the COBOL Document Type
2. Select the Mappings Panel
3. Add in a mapping for My_COBOL along with the cob file extension.

Now any file with the My_COBOL name will behave as a COBOL file.

But as you can see you would have to do that for that on a file be file basis which will be a problem if you have lots of files

Do you have many such files

If so it might be better if I add option to that Mappings Panel to have a default mapping as well.

Thank you. So far it looks like a great programming tool.

Glad to see you're enjoying the Zeus experience

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

One further point, while the above change will colour the document correctly, it will not fix the issue of the file not being correctly tagged.

As the file has no extension the ctags.exe will not know how to handle the file.

To fix this you need to open the xtags.ini file where you will see this line:

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Arguments=--c-types=+fp --excmd=p --fields=+afmikKlnsSz --sort=no --langmap=java:+.dart

You need to change that line to read as follows:

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Arguments=--c-types=+fp --excmd=p --fields=+afmikKlnsSz --sort=no --langmap=java:+.dart --langmap=cobol:+.

This change will mean any file without an extension will be assumed to be a COBOL file.

On Windows XP that file is found here:

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C:\Program Files\Zeus\

On Windows Vista or better that file is found here:

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C:\Users\<add your user id here>\AppData\Roaming\Xidicone\

Cheers Jussi

[mfisher]

Thanks for those responses. The solution you described does work (adding file-specific mappings and editing xtags.ini).

Since we do have thousands of these extensionless COBOL files, what I found most convenient is to edit the options for the default document type (as described in my earlier post). Then there is no need to assign file-specific mappings under Tools > Options. All I had to do after that was to edit xtags.ini.

Adding a default mapping would be a nice enhancement for a future release.

[jussij]

Adding a default mapping would be a nice enhancement for a future release.

I'll look to add that option to the next beta release.

Watch this space for more details

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

The latest beta adds an option to define a default mapping for files that don't have an extension.

This option is found in the Mappings panel of the Document Type dialog.

The latest beta can be found here: http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/z397s-beta.zip

To install this beta first make a good backup of your current Zeus folder (just in case) and then extract the files from the zip into the Zeus install folder.

Cheers Jussi