--- Billy Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm in the semiconductor industry. My job is to create data and to run
> regression tests on that data for the validation of physical layout rules.
>
> Skip to bottom for questions, if you don't want to read my ramblings.
>
>
> The current problem is tha the rules are not in a computer readable form.
> Many paople have a hand in writing different sections of the rules, so you
> can imagine that the wording is widely varied. There is no standard to
> wording or even the dialog used.
>
> One of the things I have been ask to do is to try and get a handle on how
> the rules may be written that that they are computer readable.
> I've been working with perl hash's and excel spread sheets.
> The main problem I was having was that I was trying to decreace the
> relationship words and increase the number of variables. This was quickly
> resulting in a spread sheet that was growing (number of columns) very
> rapidly. I assume excel has a limit to the number of columns.
>
> The idea that I have come up with is to create a language with limited
> descriptive words. Here is an example of a rule that might be written in a
> human readable form but also parsable by puter.
>
> MET1 spacing to MET1 is 45 if MET1 width is <= 245 and >= 100
>
> By looking at this
> MET1 is a layer
> Spacing width <= >= are relationships
> If is a constraint
> #'s are #'s
>
> I want to have them write correct by construction.
>
> Is it possible, in vim/gvim to open a special version of vim so that the
> user can begin to type, spac , and it would complete the word?
> Would it also be possible to not allow a word to be type'd if that word was
> not in a list.
>
> Vim would have to open in edit mode and remain there for most users, until
> save/exit. Most of the users of this would be hard core pc users who think
> the only editor is "word". But there are a few unix users.
>
> My questions.
> 1. Can vim be configured to automatically start in edit mode?
> 2. Can vim monitor each word that is being typed?
> 3. Can vim do word completion?
> 4. Can vim offer all possible spellings for partial word completion?
> If the answer to most of qeustion above is yes
> 5. Can I do the programming? I do perl, c, c++, csh and sh programming.
Hello,
As well as completing words, it would be very helpful if you wrote a syntax
file for your language. If your users see things in color, they can be sure
they have typed the commands correctly, but if the text is *not* colored, then
they will know they've got something wrong.
Something else you may want to consider - Map <F5> to call a perl script which
examines the line under the cursor and prints a message explaining what needs
to be typed next.
regards,
Peter
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