abl-mode

An Emacs major mode for editing Progress OpenEdge/Advanced Business Language files.

Installation

Download abl-mode.el, put it in your ~/.emacs.d/ directory (or somewhere on your Emacs load path), and add (load-file "abl-mode.el") to your ~/emacs.d/init.el and you should open *.p files in ABL mode (or you can invoke it explicitly with M-x abl-mode).

Contributing

Improve abl-mode by

• Using it (if you find yourself having to program in ABL)
• Open issues if you find bugs or want to suggest new features (better support for automatic indentation would be great!).
• Open a pull request.

Todo list

• [X] Multiline string
• [ ] font lock keywords
• [ ] tear out upcase logic (ick)
• [ ] indentation
• [ ] make a package

Copyright/License

Copyright (C) 2015 by Nathaniel Knight.
Copyright (C) 2020 by Winston Weinert.

Provided under the MIT License.

See license.txt for copying permissions.