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 08:59:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177948783.678297.165070@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> References: <1e2Zh.95697$ne6.70835@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <1177927075.175252.171140@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177967374 30057 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 21:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:09:34 +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 23:09:31 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 1Hid7h-0004gL-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HidDv-00071v-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:15:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 117 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.214.110.236 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177948784 31952 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2007 15:59:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:59:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.214.110.236; posting-account=9vk1mg0AAAA-gUbnvzINJTRav7lZQrYw Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.vhdl:66505 gnu.emacs.help:147806 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:15:38 -0400 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:43419 Archived-At: On Apr 30, 4:27 pm, "mans" <(myname_here)_123...@yahoo.com> wrote: > "JK" wrote in message > > news:1177927075.175252.171140@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.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. > > >> 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 > > 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. > > Best regards- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - 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