Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

[mans]

>

> 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.