From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "mans" <(myname_here)_123456@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:27:05 GMT Message-ID: References: <1e2Zh.95697$ne6.70835@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <1177927075.175252.171140@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177932907 24316 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 11:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:35:07 +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 13:35:02 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 1HiU9g-0003Y9-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:34:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiUFq-0000YN-SY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:41:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.vhdl,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 110 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.32.139.90 Original-X-Complaints-To: http://www.virginmedia.com/netreport Original-X-Trace: fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk 1177932425 82.32.139.90 (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:05 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:05 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.vhdl:66500 gnu.emacs.help:147797 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:43400 Archived-At: "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