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Text editor or framework for SKILL...

ToMWUT
Hello All,

I've got some general questions about tools which could be used to write programs in SKILL. First of all could you recommend some text editor which highlights the SKILL syntax. Right now my main problems concerns syntax errors based on the problem that I'm for example passing wrong argument types to my procedures... Is there maybe a tool which could help me with this problem in SKILL, such as for example Eclipse for J2EE or Visual Studio for .Net? If not – even some text editor with the right syntax highlight for SKILL will be sufficient.

Thanks,

ToM
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  • tweeks

    ebecheto said:

    I don't know all the steps to use your  'inferior-lisp-program tweak. Could you provide the full code tweeks ?

     

     

    That is the full code: Just set "inferior-lisp-program" to start Virtuoso in -nographE mode; no additional setup is necessary.

    You can start Virtuoso in the current buffer's current directory with M-x inferior-lisp.  In another buffer/window, find a SKILL file and start Lisp mode with M-x lisp-mode.  It's helpful (but not required) to have this happen automatically when you visit files that end in ".il" or ".ils":

       (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ils?$" . lisp-mode))

    Once you're editing a Lisp (SKILL) file in Lisp mode, and you have your virtuoso prompt open in the inferior lisp buffer, you can send commands to it for evaluation with C-c C-e (eval defun) or C-c C-r (eval region).  As usual, C-h m will show you the Lisp mode keys, and C-h b will list all the bindkeys for you. 

    Editing via Inferior Lisp Mode is much easier and more powerful than using the CIW: you have word completion via M-/, command history search via M-r, and of course all the usual Emacs editing commands, not to mention the entire history of your session (and previous Inferior Lisp sessions) is saved in the buffer, unlike the CIW which only keeps the last few lines.

    I'm currently lobbying my AE to improve -nographE mode; e.g. currently you can't use the Library Manager normally in -nographE mode.  You can still open schematics and layouts via deOpenCellView(), but return values from GUI events (e.g. mouse clicks and bindkeys) cannot be filtered: if you pan and zoom a bit, the inferior lisp buffer filles up with lines consisting only of "t".  Still, the overall integration with Emacs is so smooth that I am willing to put up with these little issues.

     

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  • tweeks

    ebecheto said:

    I don't know all the steps to use your  'inferior-lisp-program tweak. Could you provide the full code tweeks ?

     

     

    That is the full code: Just set "inferior-lisp-program" to start Virtuoso in -nographE mode; no additional setup is necessary.

    You can start Virtuoso in the current buffer's current directory with M-x inferior-lisp.  In another buffer/window, find a SKILL file and start Lisp mode with M-x lisp-mode.  It's helpful (but not required) to have this happen automatically when you visit files that end in ".il" or ".ils":

       (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ils?$" . lisp-mode))

    Once you're editing a Lisp (SKILL) file in Lisp mode, and you have your virtuoso prompt open in the inferior lisp buffer, you can send commands to it for evaluation with C-c C-e (eval defun) or C-c C-r (eval region).  As usual, C-h m will show you the Lisp mode keys, and C-h b will list all the bindkeys for you. 

    Editing via Inferior Lisp Mode is much easier and more powerful than using the CIW: you have word completion via M-/, command history search via M-r, and of course all the usual Emacs editing commands, not to mention the entire history of your session (and previous Inferior Lisp sessions) is saved in the buffer, unlike the CIW which only keeps the last few lines.

    I'm currently lobbying my AE to improve -nographE mode; e.g. currently you can't use the Library Manager normally in -nographE mode.  You can still open schematics and layouts via deOpenCellView(), but return values from GUI events (e.g. mouse clicks and bindkeys) cannot be filtered: if you pan and zoom a bit, the inferior lisp buffer filles up with lines consisting only of "t".  Still, the overall integration with Emacs is so smooth that I am willing to put up with these little issues.

     

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