From: jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com   
      
   On 2/14/26 12:33, Craig A. Berry wrote:   
   >   
   > On 2/14/26 10:48 AM, jeffrey_dsi wrote:   
   >> We have written an Antlr4 grammar for OpenVMS Basic and adapted the   
   >> Cobol85 grammar to parse OpenVMS Cobol. We have managed to get both of   
   >> them to be a language sensitive editor plugin (.nbm) for NetBeans 28   
   >> but this is the very first version to run and it does have some   
   >> problems with larger files. If anyone is interested in looking at them   
   >> or helping please contact me.   
   >>   
   >> We are also working on another plugin to connect a local folder on a   
   >> PC to an OpenVMS directory to allow the editing/compile process   
   >> accessible from NetBeans.   
   >   
   > Did you start from scratch or did you use the old HP Distributed   
   > NetBeans for OpenVMS?  If memory serves it worked ok but was awfully   
   > slow (and I never tried Cobol).   
   >   
   > https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/   
   > netbeans/distnb.html   
   >   
   > https://sourceforge.net/projects/distributednetb/   
   >   
      
   We had the grammar files from another project and NetBeans has a   
   NetBeans module as a project type. A lot of fiddling and some help from   
   ChatGPT got me going.   
      
   I tried to get the Distributed NetBeans from HP many years ago but it   
   was for NetBeans 7 and we were up to NetBeans 9 and I don't think we   
   ever got it to work.   
      
   This works with NetBeans 28 and it does have speed issues on larger   
   files but I haven't done any optimization yet. I may have to change the   
   parser from Antlr4 to something else to get the speed up but that   
   remains to be seen.   
      
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