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16 years ago

copy, rename, delete, cut paste, ...

Quartus has limited ability to copy, rename, delete, cut, paste, etc, design elements.

Example 1, there is no command for copying block drawing do another design. Opening .bdf then saving it to the new design is not obvious and does not carry associated files with.

Example 2, to rename a symbol I opened the original, saved it under the new name, then removed the old copy.

Can someone point me to how these and other editing functions can be done properly? Searching the manual for such common words has been fruitless.

Thanks,

Gary

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    Convert it to your favorite HDL language and then any text editor can do the job....

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    15 years ago

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    Quartus has limited ability to copy, rename, delete, cut, paste, etc, design elements.

    Gary

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    I stumbled upon this post while looking for some other info related to copy/paste etc in ModelSim. Quartus may be limited in editing .bdfs but it has one wonderful editing capability for .vhd etc files which I haven't seen in most of the other similar design tools: Vertical Select. Just press 'Alt' and select vertically as in MS Word. That's my favorite. I miss it while using other softwares. Even ModelSim doesn't have vertical select.
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    15 years ago

    For VHDL nothing can beat emacs with "VHDL mode"

    You can copy an entity and paste it as instantiation, or signals, or testbench ...

    And yes, it also has vertical select.
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    15 years ago

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    For VHDL nothing can beat emacs with "VHDL mode"

    You can copy an entity and paste it as instantiation, or signals, or testbench ...

    And yes, it also has vertical select.

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    True ... but then emacs is external to Quartus. Though I use emacs as a replacement for ModelSim editor, I think Quartus still does a good job for .vhd editing.
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    15 years ago

    Most text editors do a better job for editing VHDL files that quartus or modelsim.