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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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  • Andrew Beckett
    In IC613 there is also the new SKILL development environment which has syntax highlighting (and interactive debug capability).

    More and more features are being added over time to this.

    I personally use vi because it has a built in LISP mode. There are syntax highlight files out there for nedit, and also a skillMode for emacs - I'm happy to send that (no guarantees) to anyone who wants it.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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  • Andrew Beckett
    In IC613 there is also the new SKILL development environment which has syntax highlighting (and interactive debug capability).

    More and more features are being added over time to this.

    I personally use vi because it has a built in LISP mode. There are syntax highlight files out there for nedit, and also a skillMode for emacs - I'm happy to send that (no guarantees) to anyone who wants it.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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  • abhi10
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew! 

    I am pretty new to the cadence community as a requester / asking questions. I've mostly always found solutions without having to ask. But this I have not! 

    Sorry to open up a decade old thread, but I wanted to ask:

    I am a vim user, and I do have syntax highlighting on for vim, But I am not very happy with the way vim indents / un-indents code blocks for skill files. I am not sure if it even recognizes that its LISP mode.

    I see that you use vi / vim. Would you be kind enough to let me know if there are any special settings you use for skill syntax in vim ?

    Thanks,

    Abhiram

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to abhi10

    Abhiram,

    Well, the forum guidelines ask you not to post on the end of old threads, but in this case I'll make an exception as it's useful related information for others.

    I don't have anything enormously unusual in my vi setup (well, I have a number of bindings to invoke programs to create the box comment style I use, but other than that). In my ~/.exrc I have:

    set shiftwidth=4
    set autoindent
    set showmatch showmode

    which are my usual settings for C mode. Then whenever I'm using LISP mode, I enter;

    :set lisp

    Note that whether this is supported depends on how vim was compiled, I think; on my machine "vi" doesn't support lisp mode but "vim" and "gvim" do. Note that you can also use ":set" to see what opens are set having set them, or ":set all" to see all available options (so if lisp/nolisp shows up it's available).

    In addition, I have ~/.vim/filetype.vim which contains this:

    " my filetype file
    if exists("did_load_filetypes")
    finish
    endif
    augroup filetypedetect
    au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.ocn setfiletype skill
    au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.ils setfiletype skill
    au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.sv setfiletype verilog
    augroup END

    This then means that the syntax highlighting mode for gvim tuns on for OCEAN scripts and SKILL++ code as well as .il (which is done by default).

    Hope that helps,

    Andrew.

  • RK56
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    I would like to link here one of my post posted sometime back on VIM settings for SKILL

    https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/custom-ic-skill/37796/vim-settings-for-skill

    I use it regularly and found it useful. Please feel free to share your thoughts

    -Ramakrishnan

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