GNU Emacs |
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs |
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Mark Riggle has developed a PL/I mode for Emacs that can be found here. Details of the most recent version of Emacs ported to OpenVMS can be found here. |
jEdit |
http://www.jedit.org |
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jEdit is a text editor written in Java. It runs on Windows, Unix/Linux, MacOS X and OpenVMS. Rob Watson has written a module that provides syntax highlighting for PL/I. This module thips with the editor which can be downloaded from here. |
Vim |
http://www.vim.org |
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Vim (Vi improved) is a vi-compatible text editor that runs on nearly every operating system known to humanity (including OpenVMS). Michael Fitz has written a plugin for Vim, PLI-Tools, that provides syntax highlighting and indentation. The plugin and instructions on how to install and use it can be found here.
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GNU nano |
http://www.nano-editor.org |
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GNU nano is a simple text editor designed to be a drop-in replacement for the Pico editor that is part of the Pine email suite. Tim Sneddon has written a simple syntax highlighting module that can be included in the user's .nanorc file. This can be downloaded here. |
Language Sensitive Editor |
http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/commercial/decset/decset_index.html |
The Language Sensitive Editor (LSE) is a commerical editor that ships as part of HP's DECset development tool chain for OpenVMS. It provides support for PL/I. |
Ecplise |
http://www.pliedit.com/ |
William Fenalson has developed PLIEDIT, a plugin for the Eclipse IDE. which provides a PL/I sensitive editor for the Eclipse framework. It supports syntax checking, highly customizable syntax colouring and supports the full IBM and ANSI language features. |