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bypassing Virtuoso built-in viewer

vivkr

Hi All,

It is possible to adjust the editor settings so that model files and Verilog-A files are opened for editing with a user-specific editing program, e.g. vim, nedit, emacs etc. The built-in viewer that comes with Virtuoso is really rather limited in its features.

Can the same be done for viewing the netlist or the simulator output log? The best I could imagine was adding these on the model path list but keeping them disabled, but this is a rather inelegant solution, and one would need to do it by hand each time.

Regards,

Vivek

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  •  Hi Vivek,

    I'm not sure about the read-only viewer, but the editor can certainly be changed.  Look at the "editor" variable in the CIW, it might look something like this: 

    
  editor
  => "vi"
  editor = "gvim"
  => "gvim"

     For the netlist and simulation logfile, I would imagine that you might need to add a custom menu item or bindkey for opening these with the editor, for example "gvim -R" to invoke it in read-only mode, but still have the features of Vim like syntax highlighting.

    Hope this helps you.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  •  Hi Vivek,

    I'm not sure about the read-only viewer, but the editor can certainly be changed.  Look at the "editor" variable in the CIW, it might look something like this: 

    
  editor
  => "vi"
  editor = "gvim"
  => "gvim"

     For the netlist and simulation logfile, I would imagine that you might need to add a custom menu item or bindkey for opening these with the editor, for example "gvim -R" to invoke it in read-only mode, but still have the features of Vim like syntax highlighting.

    Hope this helps you.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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