Quartus workflow

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I use fingertext which allows you define templates, but thats it.

Otherwise just raw notepad++. It does have autocomplete by default but I dont use it.

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So what is the big difference between raw Notepad++ and quartus tex editor? I dont see how raw notepad could help to type and navigate trough code faster. What about syntax check and source compilation?

What i want from text editor:

• Autocomplete

• Some outline view - for example if i have some process in my code

  compute_xor: process (b,c)
  begin
    a<=b xor c;
  end process;

  I would like to jump to this process insted of scroling through hundreds of lines. Same to component instantiations, declared signals ect.
  I know that Sigasi has such feature but it is not free as i know.

• Syntax check