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ABAP Editor Configuration

Default ABAP Scheme Workbench Editor

How To Enable The New ABAP Editor

The SAP GUI ABAP Editor for LISP enables

• syntax highlighting
• code completion

SAP GUI Configuration Folder

The SAP GUI configuration files are located in the roaming user application directory. They can be reached using the environment variable %APPDATA%.

cd %APPDATA%\SAP\SAP GUI\ABAP Editor
Windows 10 => [ C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SAP\SAP GUI\ABAP Editor ]

Configuration Steps

1. You must manually copy two configuration files provided here in your local SAP GUI configuration folder for the ABAP Editor

• lisp_spec.xml
• lisp_user.xml

2. Change in the first lines of ABAP Include YY_LISP_IDE

   c_new_abap_editor TYPE flag VALUE abap_true, c_source_type TYPE string VALUE 'LISP'.

3. Restart the workbench.

Configuration Files

To create your own theme files

• lisp_spec.xml
• lisp_user.xml

read

• https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/NWTech/SAP+GUI+Logon+Configuration
• https://github.com/lucattelli/ab4-themes
• https://github.com/alexey-arseniev/ab4-code-templates
• https://blogs.sap.com/2017/08/01/old-new-abap-editor/

The comments in the blog post

• https://blogs.sap.com/2015/06/24/a-lisp-interpreter-in-abap/

give useful hints:

In lisp_spec.xml,

add
<TextType id="52" name="Keywords" ...>
  <Keywords>
…
    <Keyword text="define"/>
    <Keyword text="set!"/>
    <Keyword text="lambda"/>
…
  </Keywords>
</TextType>

<keywords>
</>

<structures>
  <structure open="(" close==")"\>
  <structure open="[" close=="]"\>
</structures>