How not to use CIW but UNIX command line

I would really love it if I can use UNIX command line or Emacs
in place of the CIW which has only limited command line editing
functionality.

I tried icfb -nograph but it cannot open any windows.
Why does cadence have this stupid restriction?

I want to control icfb by command line, which I can easily repeat or
program,
because i am not that good at repetitive mouse clicking.

 

hi Zheheng, A great idea would be to write an emacs mode
that would send its ouptut to icfb, perhaps through an
ipcProcess. Have you used the emacs shell? Something like
that is what i have in mind. When you press CR, emacs sends
the line to the shell. And when the shell outputs something,
emacs copies it into the buffer. The same principle should
work for icfb. You could use all the full
screen editing features of emacs. I have never seen any
implementation of this idea, at least not yet.

-jim

 

Hi Jim,
it has been done in tcl. I think you can get a good idea on how to do
things with a different command line on.

http://ic.net/~cflynt/realprog/realwrld/nelson/nelson1.htm

 

Hi All,

Are you using skill-mode for Emacs? There is an possibility in this
mode to send buffer of selection to the icfb. It using temporary file
for Emacs to Cadence(ipcProcess) data transfer. It seems you can reuse
the code simply to implement the Cadence command line like shell.
Unfortunately I am not a Emacs guru and could not implement it by
self, but I will enjoy this feature is anybody do it .
__
Boris.

 

I have made a utility to just do this. It supports TAB completion for SKILL
functions and history file, so you can use Ctrl+R to recall
command entered. It also contains Finder documents, just press TAB
twice to view the document for the function before cursor.

Cao

 

You can download the utility from here:

http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~cao/