COBOL - highlighting if/end-if evaluate/end-evaluate pairs

[FALLAI-Denis]

Hi,

Playing around with the brackets settings in Z Open Editor's cobol-language-configuration.json file, I highlighted the if/end-if and evaluate/end-evaluate statement pairs.

  "brackets": [
    ["{", "}"],
    ["[", "]"],
    ["(", ")"],
    [">>if",">>end-if"],
    ["if","end-if"],
    [">>evaluate",">>end-evaluate"]
    ["evaluate","end-evaluate"]
  ],

With a bit of parameterization in the settings.json:

"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": true
"editor.guides.bracketPairsHorizontal": true
"editor.guides.highlightActiveBracketPair": true

This works even if the existence of a comment or a line number in columns 1 to 6 slightly disturbs the display of the connecting line between the instruction and its terminator.
brackets are not case sensitive... hooray!

This also assumes that terminators are systematically implemented (no use of COBOL "." to terminate a statement).
Not all terminators are eligible, in particular end-perform because there may be perform paragraph/section that interfere.

This evolution could be integrated into the "factory" configuration of Z Open Editor, but I'm not sure that everyone wants it.

Would there be a way to override the cobol-language-configuration.json file delivered with Z Open Editor to be able to implement this operation only on site and not in the standard delivery of Z Open Editor?

[FALLAI-Denis]

Brackets options can be declared in the settings.json, user or workspace file:

  "[cobol]": {
  "editor.language.brackets": [
    [">>if",">>end-if"],
    ["if","end-if"],
    [">>evaluate",">>end-evaluate"],
    ["evaluate","end-evaluate"]
    ]
  }