Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

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

On Apr 30, 4:27 pm, "mans" <(myname_here)_123...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "JK" <krishna.januman...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 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.
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> > JK
> > I
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> If you use it with ISE, would you please tell me how did you setup ISE to
> use it?
> In my setup, emacs is runs every  time and also when I click on an error in
> ISE, it can not bring me to the specific line in the source code.
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> Best regards- Hide quoted text -
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No, I am not using Emacs with ISE.  For Design Entry I am using
Emacs32 only and in this, I set Compiler as Modelsim.
So, once I complete my coding, I do compilation in Emacs32 itself to
check syntax errors if any.

Regards,
JK