From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sun Yijiang" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Do we need a major mode for verilog? Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:55:23 +0800 Message-ID: <5065e2900608260955g3bf9aea1vdfffb84539fc90ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <5065e2900608250820q16af08adkc5214c78b6bc4210@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156611346 21366 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 16:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 18:55:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH1Rd-00014m-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:55:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH1Rd-0002EM-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GH1RP-0002Cn-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GH1RO-0002B7-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH1RO-0002Aq-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.190] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GH1Zv-0005dH-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id q29so1166578nfc for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:55:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W0eSiJd4tkwFECBue4ITpp67S39Z8sVK5f3Qa6fsnqG/2vqpnga5aFwpxzcEcYRrX2YDrco24fKUg8DhdX/eajWPeYy4TCDke+z6xZBHjgeI/YrSPV4cV1+RBCo082+5/r3HeGnP1rmIQ5gCgBhrhoKpHC0a9PqIdjXzDkn15cM= Original-Received: by 10.49.93.13 with SMTP id v13mr6857870nfl; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.230.12 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58923 Archived-At: I think there's no overwhelming strength/weakness for vlog-mode to verilog-mode. Highlighting, code indentation, code alignment, sensitive lists generation... It's easy to switch from verilog-mode to vlog-mode. Of cource, vlog-mode has some unique features that verilog-mode does not have. In fact, I used to hack a lot on verilog-mode.el but the author of verilog-mode tries to control the source and is not very friendly to other contributors (It's official website is http://www.verilog.com). Of cource, that's only my personal impression, maybe very biased. But that's the original motivation for vlog-mode: a more open and public project of and for the Emacs-Verilog community, just like vhdl-mode is doing now. 2006/8/26, Stefan Monnier : > > I used to live in Emacs and work with verilog every day but could not > > find a satisfying major mode for verilog, so I wrote one myself (named > > vlog-mode) and made it public on sourceforge since Dec 2004 > > (http://vlog-mode.sf.net). since there's no default major mode for > > verilog, I wonder if there's a need for such a major mode and if > > vlog-mode is a qualified candidate. I wish that vlog-mode could > > become part of GNU Emacs distribution since the next release. > > There is also http://www.veripool.com/verilog-mode.html > (http://www.veripool.com/ftp/verilog-mode.el.gz). > > Looking at your tarball, I don't see any comparison with it, could you > outline the respective strength/weaknesses? > > > Stefan >