We have three editors (in addition to Editor 3000 and Quad) that are used:
Qedit (Host based), ICE (PC based) and Whisper Programmer Studio (C/S
based). I prefer Whisper Programmer Studio with it's three pane IDE and
lots of other useful features including RegEx searches and a built in
compare facility. As someone else said, "It's not perfect", but is is very
good. It can be easily used on a PC detached from an MPE or Unix host
because it also has a host component that will run on the PC. My main
complaint right now is that although I was able to do the TRAX COBOL
Debugger with WPS tutorial, but I still can't get WPS to drive TRAX on any
of our actual source programs.

My generalized observation is that many "experienced" COBOL programmers
(30 years in my case) prefer to stick with Qedit and not learn the newer
IDEs. Some are willing to go to a PC based editor like ICE, but no
further. Most younger programmers grok the three pane IDEs and run with
them. I prefer the newer three pane IDE, but then I escaped COBOL for a
few years and worked with Smalltalk doing OO with a three pane IDE before
being dragged back into COBOL when Y2K was the Great Satan.

Usually, if WPS won't do the editing I want, I just drop all the way back
to Quad or Editor 3000 and skip Qedit.

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