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Anand,

Did you add this to a .cdsenv file or did you do an envSetVal() in the .cdsinit? This needs to be set in the .cdsenv (if I remember rightly) as otherwise it is set to late to have an influence. That's true - if you try to do it via envSetVal in the session, it will tell you via a popup. I just tested this again with a .cdsenv file and it works fine.

Note that you need (normally) would need to put this in a .cdsenv file in your home directory; we normally don't read the .cdsenv in your working directory by default (this can be altered using the Cadence Search File mechanism or using $CDS_LOAD_ENV - see the documentation). So maybe that's what you've done wrong?

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for reply.  .cdsenv file in my home path is "read-only" ,it cant be edited. but i can see that  ui  enableMenuShortcuts stringToSymbol("boolean") is not present in .cdsenv.

Yet envGetVal("ui" "enableMenuShortcuts" stringToSymbol("boolean"))    in CIW ,   it returns t.  When i do ls -lrt .cdsenv  it shows writable for me but this .cdsenv file is referring to common project folder and i cant edit this .csenv. Is there any work-around for this?

Thanks in advance,

Anand

Anand,

Create a .cdsenv file in your working directory with the contents:

ui enableMenuShortcuts boolean nil

Then do:

setenv CDS_LOAD_ENV addCWD

or

export CDS_LOAD_ENV=addCWD

depending on the shell you're using (first is for csh, second is for bash/ksh). Then start virtuoso from that shell - this will tell it to read the .cdsenv in your working directory as well as the home directory.

Note that  you would never put a SKILL function call such as stringToSymbol() in a .cdsenv file since it's not a SKILL file. In fact I'm not sure why you would do that even when doing envSetVal() because you could just as easily use 'boolean rather than stringToSymbol("boolean").

Regards,

Andrew.

Thank you very much Andrew.