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XEmacs with its famous VHDL mode

Johann.Glaser@gmx.at

Hi!

The text editor provided with PlanAhead is somewhat limited, but luckily there is an alternative: XEmacs with its famous VHDL mode: http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html

XEmacs can be set as the default text editor in the PlanAhead Options. Unfortunately, it opens a new window each time you open a file. But even this can be solved, using the XEmacs server and client mode.

Please find a script to utilize these features at http://pastebin.com/eXmhrZiG
Please read the installation instructions in the detailed comment at its top. Note that it requires an additional step to copy-paste to a second script running in XEmacs Lisp.

It was developed and tested on a Debian GNU/Linux machine (sid) using ISE 14.2 but should also work on any other up-to-date Linux or Windows machine.

Bye
  Hansi

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    When a custom editor is setup in PlanAhead, which is entered with a full path, e.g.

    /home/hansi/bin/xemacs-multi [file name] [line number]

    this doesn't work. When opening a file, a dialog pops up complaining that the edit "'<filename> <linenum>'" does not exist. When editing the custom editor setting, the first part (in the above example "/home/hansi/bin/xemacs-multi") has vanished. Note that the error message also doesn't include this part.

    @Xilinx: Please fix this bug.

    Bye
      Hansi