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Setting up Emacs for SKILL

snezana111

Hello,

I am fairly new to SKILL and I don't have the option to use SKILL IDE in my version of Cadence.

My current working version of Cadence is IC6.1.6-64b.500.11

I am also novice in EMACS, and I have covered the basics in Common Lisp and SKILL, now I would like to organize my work and I understood there is a way you could use EMACS as an IDE for SKILL. I read through some threads like http://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/48/p/12625/1293515#1293515

but I am not sure how to set it up. What compiler to use in order to use skillMode.el that is mentioned in the link above? (like, SBCL, or can I use some that are built in in EMACS, like IELM?)

What should happen if I load skillMode.el in emacs? And what is the proper way in doing that? Does it mean I can invoke procedures and function from Emacs and get the results i.e. for adding an instance in Schematic to display in the Schematic window?

Any help and advice appreciated

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  • quick answer, (no time to debug it now). When i shared my code to a 'stagiaire', it looped also ...

    Yes, you have to $> chmod +x ~/Skill/ipcPipe2CAT.sh

    if it loop just , $> rm ~/.emacs2icfb.il

    Otherwise, just try from cadence :

    ipcBeginProcess(strcat(getShellEnvVar("SKILLDIR") "/ipcPipe2CAT.sh") "" 'socketHandler)

    then from a shell $>echo "1+2EOF"> /tmp/ipcPipe2CAT_$USER

    maybe change the socketHandler function so that is only `evalstring(data)' (for debug)



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    Last thing in emacs, if you have not uncommented  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.il$" . skill-mode))
    you need to activate the mode, by pressing (Meta-x), i mean : Alt-x  and the write : 
    skill-mode
    normally you have the completion (tab key) that works for writing skill-mode in the mini-buffer.
    then in emacs, bindey C-v should execute the code of the current line. C-s should write the results as a comment on the following line if needed.

    I will make a patch of the socketHandler function so that it recognise, whether i launch a line, a region, or if i want to 'load a file'. 
    But i'm too busy write now.


    Hope it helps.
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  • quick answer, (no time to debug it now). When i shared my code to a 'stagiaire', it looped also ...

    Yes, you have to $> chmod +x ~/Skill/ipcPipe2CAT.sh

    if it loop just , $> rm ~/.emacs2icfb.il

    Otherwise, just try from cadence :

    ipcBeginProcess(strcat(getShellEnvVar("SKILLDIR") "/ipcPipe2CAT.sh") "" 'socketHandler)

    then from a shell $>echo "1+2EOF"> /tmp/ipcPipe2CAT_$USER

    maybe change the socketHandler function so that is only `evalstring(data)' (for debug)



    _________

    Last thing in emacs, if you have not uncommented  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.il$" . skill-mode))
    you need to activate the mode, by pressing (Meta-x), i mean : Alt-x  and the write : 
    skill-mode
    normally you have the completion (tab key) that works for writing skill-mode in the mini-buffer.
    then in emacs, bindey C-v should execute the code of the current line. C-s should write the results as a comment on the following line if needed.

    I will make a patch of the socketHandler function so that it recognise, whether i launch a line, a region, or if i want to 'load a file'. 
    But i'm too busy write now.


    Hope it helps.
    ++

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