From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: JK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience) Date: 30 Apr 2007 02:57:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177927075.175252.171140@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1e2Zh.95697$ne6.70835@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177929433 12844 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 10:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:37:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 12:37:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiTFl-0006S8-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:37:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiTLu-0001Ts-F3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:43:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 84 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.91.207.30 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177927075 5423 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2007 09:57:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:57:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1e2Zh.95697$ne6.70835@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 hdccache (NetCache NetApp/5.5R5), 1.1 Proxy2 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.4), 1.1 Proxy2 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.4) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.91.207.30; posting-account=9vk1mg0AAAA-gUbnvzINJTRav7lZQrYw Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.vhdl:66499 gnu.emacs.help:147790 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43393 Archived-At: 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. > > Thank you for helping me to solve the problem. > > > > >> 1- Its keyboard shortcuts are not windows based. I tried to > >> configure wmacsw32 without any success. > > > 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: > > > Options - Customize EmacsW32 ... > > 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. > > > > > > > > >> 2- It is very slow to start ( I didn't use emacs clinets) > > > You should use EmacsClient and only start Emacs once. > > > 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. > > > 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.) > > 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! > > >> 5- Some times when I try to click on VHDL menu, this menu item > >> disappears! > > > Can you please describe this more? Exactly when does this happen? > > It happens before to me but it is working well now. I will post the details > if it happens again to me. > > More on new and old problems that I have: > > 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? > > 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? > > One suggestion: > > 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? > > My view of emacs for editing VHDL is no changed and I am very happy to use > it with VHDL. > > Best regards and thanks for helping to use emacs.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - 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 I