I’ve posted SystemVerilog (and Vera) syntax files for my favorite editors:

• Kate (linux)
• Crimson (WinPC)
• SciTE (WinPC)

The syntax files are posted on the downloads page here:

http://intelligentdv.com/downloads/

You can browse the SVN repository directly too:

1.0.0 Release

vi or Emacs? Neither!

I grew up with the WinPC so I like editors that have the PC editor keyboard shortcuts:

• ctrl-arrow to move words
• home / end
• shift to highlight
• ctrl-C, ctrl-X, ctrl-V for copy, cut, and paste
• etc etc

Crimson is a great PC editor with native unix file format saving, tabbed interface, amazing column edit mode, find across files, replace across open files, and a very handy macro record / playback utility. Crimson can officially be found here:

http://www.crimsoneditor.com

but hasn’t been updated since 2004. An open source group has gotten their mittens on the crimson source and has released a number of alpha builds with improvements. The emerald editor team’s updates can be found here:

http://www.emeraldeditor.com/

Currently they have a Beta release of crimson here:

Crimson Editor Development Binaries

Kate is the my favorite PC editor for linux code development (that isn’t an IDE). It supports my keyboard shortcuts, has a tabbed interface plugin, find across files, and it has code folding – the one feature missing from crimson. Kate is included in the KDE desktop – but you should be able to apt-get it (or yum it, if you prefer…) in your favorite distro. More about Kate:

http://kate-editor.org/

SciTE is an editor that I use when I need to make presentations… more on that with a blog post to come later. You can find SciTE here:

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Post any issues or feature requests on the bugtracker:

http://bugs.intelligentdv.com/

Enjoy!

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