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Message started by Ken Kundert on Mar 17^th, 2015, 3:45pm

Title: Cadence text editor
Post by Ken Kundert on Mar 17^th, 2015, 3:45pm

In the latest version of Cadence's ADE, it seems that it is now ignoring the EDITOR environment variable and using a built-in text editor when it comes time to either display or edit text views of design object.

For a long time user of vim, this is nothing short of a nightmare.

Does anybody know how to override this behavior and allow me to use the editor of my choice?

-Ken
:wq!

Title: Re: Cadence text editor
Post by Frank Wiedmann on Mar 18^th, 2015, 1:56am

Put envSetVal("textedit" "useExternalEditor" 'boolean t) in your .cdsinit file (see http://support.cadence.com/wps/mypoc/cos?uri=deeplinkmin:ViewSolution;solutionNumber=20279135).

Title: Re: Cadence text editor
Post by Ken Kundert on Mar 18^th, 2015, 12:47pm

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Using your suggestion, I also found that I could just put the following in my ~/.cdsenv file (they are equivalent):

Code:

textedit useExternalEditor boolean t

-Ken