Morning all,

The company I work for are long time users of Kedit. Whilst it's a very good editor it's not been updated since 1998, and is now starting to show its age somewhat.

I'm trying to get management to look into upgrading to UltraEdit, but I feel the only way I'm going to get them to even consider the upgrade is if the numerous macros that we've created in Kedit can be transferred over to UltraEdit.

All of the Kedit macros have been created in REXX, so I was wondering if either:

- There's a plugin so that UltraEdit can support REXX
or
- There's a quick and easy way for me to convert these REXX macros into a format understood by UltraEdit.

I can't see my company changing from Kedit unless the macros can be ported over.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated.

Many thanks,

Rob

Hi Rob

That's a pretty tall order!
I found a couple of websites that make me think something is possible, now what?
Did you know IBM has given REXX to the open source world?
http://www.rexxla.org/
and http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtool ... ource.html

As you know REXX is a full blown scripting language, I'm of the option UE macro langage is not as robust as REXX and I'm not aware of plug-in that will convert REXX to UE macro language.

Here are a few ideas:
1) Use REXX as a tool that you call like a compiler or a external tool.
2) Look into Eclipse the editor which does support a REXX as a plug-in.
http://www.eclipse.org
<I'm trying to check out open source but SourceForge site is down for maintenance, go figure!>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=119701

Maybe someone else has some ideas!
Good Luck

Many thanks for those links. Really appreciated!

I've now got another programme and myself looking into Eclipse. This could be exactly what we need to get our macros converted and into UltraEdit.

Will report back with my results.

Thanks again!

Rob