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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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  • skillUser

    Hi ToM,

    Personally I use "gvim" and am pretty happy with it, but it only performs syntax hilighting.  I believe that the emacs-based SKILL mode can also give indication of the function arguments (possibly also indicating data types?) but this is a pretty old extension and I don't know if it is being maintained or updated.

    The SKILL mode in gvim seems to recognise most SKILL syntax that I work with right out-of-the-box, and the syntax files are customizable by the user, so you can always write your own or modify the existing to further meet your needs.  Another good thing about gvim is that you can use it on Unix/Linux as well as PCs.

    There is a group within Cadence that has written a SKILL development environment (using Eclipse, I believe, though I'm fuzzy on the details), and this would be available as part of a services deal.

    Otherwise, in my opinion, your best bets for an editor would be, in order, gvim, xemacs, nedit.

    YMMV

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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  • skillUser

    Hi ToM,

    Personally I use "gvim" and am pretty happy with it, but it only performs syntax hilighting.  I believe that the emacs-based SKILL mode can also give indication of the function arguments (possibly also indicating data types?) but this is a pretty old extension and I don't know if it is being maintained or updated.

    The SKILL mode in gvim seems to recognise most SKILL syntax that I work with right out-of-the-box, and the syntax files are customizable by the user, so you can always write your own or modify the existing to further meet your needs.  Another good thing about gvim is that you can use it on Unix/Linux as well as PCs.

    There is a group within Cadence that has written a SKILL development environment (using Eclipse, I believe, though I'm fuzzy on the details), and this would be available as part of a services deal.

    Otherwise, in my opinion, your best bets for an editor would be, in order, gvim, xemacs, nedit.

    YMMV

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

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