Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

[JK <krishna.janumanchi@gmail.com>]

On Apr 29, 7:47 pm, "mans" <(myname_here)_123...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for telling us about the problems so we may try to get them fixed.
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> Thank you for helping me to solve the problem.
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> >> 1-      Its keyboard shortcuts are not windows based. I tried to
> >> configure wmacsw32 without any success.
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> > Can you please tell me what you did and how it failed? There is a quick
> > setup for those things if you use the menus:
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> >    Options - Customize EmacsW32 ...
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> I did use this option and it didn't work for me. I set the CUA in option and
> it is working. One point that probably confuse people is that even in this
> case, the short cuts in edit menu is not C-x and C-c and so on.
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> >> 2-      It is very slow to start ( I didn't use emacs clinets)
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> > You should use EmacsClient and only start Emacs once.
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> > Making it easy to get started using EmacsClient is one of the main things
> > the installer for Emacs+EmacsW32 is trying to help you with. Several
> > shortcuts gets installed that lets you start Emacs through EmacsClient.
> > There is one in the start menu and you get one in the SendTo menu. If you
> > prefer working from the command line there is a command line script called
> > e.cmd for this.
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> > If you use the patched version then Emacs server gets started
> > automatically through those shortcuts and or the command line scripts.
> > (For the unpatched version you have to start Emacs server yourself, please
> > read the Emacs manual.)
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> I think I don't have the patched version. I will try to see what I can do
> with this but  as long as I am not closing emacs after each edit, I don't
> need to restart it. I am happy!
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> >> 5-      Some times when I try to click on VHDL menu, this menu item
> >> disappears!
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> >  Can you please describe this more? Exactly when does this happen?
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> It happens before to me but it is working well now. I will post the details
> if it happens again to me.
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> More on new and old problems that I have:
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> 1- I can set speedbar and used it. It is a very useful facility. The problem
> is that I can not dock it into emacs. Is there any way to dock it into emacs
> so it doesn't start as a new window?
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> 2- If I have a file that I modified with ISE, when I open it with Emacs, I
> can see a ^M at the end of each line. This generates error during
> indentation. I could not find any way to fix it. I only can remove them
> manually which is time consuming. Any way to do this in emacs or ISE or by
> any other tools?
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> One suggestion:
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>   As during editing, it is possible to edit several files, is there any way
> to save all files just by pressing a button on toolbar or a menu item?
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> My view of emacs for editing VHDL is no changed and I am very happy to use
> it with VHDL.
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> Best regards and thanks for helping to use emacs.- Hide quoted text -
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I downloaded emacs - windows version from http://www.ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl
(Download Latest EmacsW32 + Emacs patched).
It supports vhdl mode. Its really good. You can give a try.

JK
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