Yesterday I submitted a patch to the pygments bugtracker with a functioning lexer for ABAP. I hope that it'll be included in the next release.

A little example and the first public piece of ABAP code that has been highlighted with pygments.

REPORT z_hello_world.

PARAMETERS: gv_name TYPE text50.

WRITE: 'Hello', gv_name.

The lexer currently has one little problem. If you define a variable with the same name as an ABAP keyword, it'll also highlight that variable. Maybe I'll get around to fixing that, but that'll be quite a task since that means parsing every ABAP statement and not just highlighting the keywords.

A quick tip when working with ALV-Grids or transactions that use ALV-Grids and don't display changes to data structures.

A couple of days ago I found Forklift a Finder replacment. The main thing that caught my attention is the dual pane interface that I was missing from my Total Commander days. Yes I'm a switcher.