HDL powerful editor.

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HDL Editor: the HDL Powerful Editor 

  Verilog, VHDL which editor to use better? Mention to the experience. I used Quartus editor, and there are always defects. Very much appreciate the IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio. we want to design a power editor, we welcome more suggestions. The main function is: 1.Syntax highlighting, folding. 2.The perfect Chinese support. 3. Quickly generate code templates support script. 4. smart navigation  5. Call structure diagram. 6. Real-time code checking: (a difficult point ,to do some basic) 7. Embedded the Icarus Verilog simulation. So easy to do some small simulation.     Other. . . . . Please mention.

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For VHDL: look at sigasi (http://www.sigasi.com/)

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Interesting site, list of VHDL editors : http://www.vhdleditor.com/vhdl-ides

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Notepad++ is pretty good and free 

Some people seem to like HDL Designer from Mentor (others dont).

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thank of your advise. 

i wan create a open source project, thus we can do more extension.

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NotePad++ is a general-purpose editor， i wan to create a dedicated editor.. 

  --- Quote Start ---  Notepad++ is pretty good and free Some people seem to like HDL Designer from Mentor (others dont).  --- Quote End ---  

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@ fpga_fan : Good idea but we have our habits with our preferred text editor. So a higly customisable editor will be great.  

 I have found no free VHDL editors that are able to "refactor", I mean : to rename signals in VHDL files like rename variables in C files as Eclipse does I also open both VHDL files and Modelsim macros (.DO) in the same editor. I have made a few (alpha version) pythonscript for notepad++ for "refactoring" and for "copying derivated entities" I am contributing to "source cookifier" plugin to get a "functions list" for vhdl.  Notepad++ lacks of VHDL templates (little work), hierarchy structure (much work)...  Sigasi does "refactoring" with the state of the art (not like me :-)) but not free.