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Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

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From: mans
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:27
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"JK" <krishna.janumanchi@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.
>>
>> 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
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