The OpenEdge Hive

Notpead++ is a great open source programmers editor. I've added it a support to Progress 4GL / ABL, so you can enjoy syntax highlighting and syntax folding.

Use Ed4W as a code editor for Progress, including syntax check and intelligent code expansion.

ABHack is a kind of demon 4GL procedure to run with the PERSISTENT option in a development session. It can spy the activity in a source-code procedure editor to pop up auto completion lists for local or global variables, attributes/methods, buffers, temp-table, table and fields names. It includes many other features like a query analyzer for a selected text, open text-selected source file-names an improved navigation by words, ++ insertion, quick comment out, and ability to make the data dictionary resizable.
11-MAR-2007 New features: duplicate line on Alt-Down like Eclipse does, and better handling of full stop when inserting closing guy

05-MAR-2007 New feature: completion for block labels

26-FEB-2007 Three big new features: Make the popup field list scroll to the most likely interesting field after an equal sign. Improved suggested list of buffers after '=' equal operator. Ability to 'Keep track of Section Cursor Position', and restore the previous row and col of a section you visited earlier when you go back to it.

Purpose of Proed4w:

If you are using "ED for Windows" (version 4) and are editing .p or .w files, you can use this tool as a communication bridge between ED for Windows and a Progress session.

You can do:
- create a "Compile" button in Ed for Windows
- compile 4GL code from within Ed
- Ed shows compile warnings and errors in its Build results window.

You can also:
Launch Prolint from within ED for Windows to have it check the current sourcefile.