FrenziedEngi
17th March 2009, 08:54 PM
Hey all,
I don't know what text editor(s) you might use when writing VHDL, but may I strongly suggest considering using emacs? Why you might ask? Well, the best reason I have is that there is a full-blown VHDL editor "mode" for emacs which means a lot of repetitive typing is handled for you. It causes you to be lazy, really... I would probably fail a written test on VHDL because emacs just remembers all the syntax for me. My second best reason is that it has an auto formatting feature (beautify) which fixes indentations, font case, spacing, etc and makes code look very nice and orderly.
So how do you get started?
Download emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Download vhdl-mode: http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html
If you are interested in doing this, and don't know how to get started with emacs itself, put up a post and I will be happy to help.
I don't know what text editor(s) you might use when writing VHDL, but may I strongly suggest considering using emacs? Why you might ask? Well, the best reason I have is that there is a full-blown VHDL editor "mode" for emacs which means a lot of repetitive typing is handled for you. It causes you to be lazy, really... I would probably fail a written test on VHDL because emacs just remembers all the syntax for me. My second best reason is that it has an auto formatting feature (beautify) which fixes indentations, font case, spacing, etc and makes code look very nice and orderly.
So how do you get started?
Download emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Download vhdl-mode: http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~zimmi/emacs/vhdl-mode.html
If you are interested in doing this, and don't know how to get started with emacs itself, put up a post and I will be happy to help.