
Keyboard shortcuts can be easily customized via Preferences > General > Keys. To inspect the exact list of keyboard shortcuts, go to Preferences > General > Keys. If you are using Mac OS X, most of these keyboard shortcuts use Command instead of Ctrl. Simply start typing the name of the item you wish to invoke. With Quick Access you can quickly find open editors, available perspectives, views, preferences, wizards, commands, etc. Quick Access ( Ctrl+3, This is the shortcut to use, when you forgot the shortcut you actually need.).( Structured selection)įormat your current VHDL or SystemVerilog file. Select VHDL or Verilog code, based on its syntactic structure. Structured Select ( Shift+Alt+Up/Down/Left/Right).Switch between regular and block selection mode. Once you get used to the rename refactoring you will be using it all the time. The search view is displayed, with a match for each occurrence (possibly in multiple files) To search for all occurrences of a given identifier, just select the identifier and press Shift+Ctrl+G. You can display the line numbers by right-clicking on on the gray bar on the left side of the editor view and clicking on Show Line Numbers. You can directly jump to a certain line with this shortcut. Press Ctrl+1 to activate the Quick Fix, select the fix with the UP or DOWN keys and execute the Quick Fix with Enter. To fix problems even quicker, navigate to the problem with the previous shortcut. Just press Ctrl+Space to get a suggestion of possible autocompletes in the current context.ĭoes your file contain warnings or errors? Quickly navigate to the next problem by pressing Ctrl+. With content assist (autocomplete) you can really speed up coding VHDL.

Often, when you navigate to a declaration you want to go back to where you came from just press Alt+Left. Shift+Ctrl+D opens a dialog in which you can type a name or pattern to open a specific VHDL or SystemVerilog design unit name.

Use F3 to navigate to the declaration of the selected identifier. Shift+Ctrl+R opens a dialog that allows you to swiftly open an editor on any file in the workspace. In this section, we list the most important shortcuts. In this chapter, we describe the available keyboard shortcuts. A printable cheat sheet with all shortcuts on one page is available for download. They are a great way to boost your productivity. For that reason, Sigasi Studio provides a number of keyboard shortcuts. At some point, you may feel that the GUI-based approach becomes too slow for these actions. As you become more experienced with Sigasi Studio, you will find that there are a number of actions that you perform quite often.
