rust_hdl VS vim-dispatch

rust_hdl

I want to share a VHDL language server I have written in Rust. It is now in a really good state and is ready to be the daily driver for someone working on VHDL. It is completely free and open source, enjoy! https://github.com/VHDL-LS/rust_hdl

For VHDL, vhdl_ls seems to be the best choice for code navigation with support to find definitions and references as well as diagnostics. I do not know however how its internal linter compares to GHDL.

I'm using emacs + rust_hdl as LSP and it provides me live-error-checking for VHDL designs. You should be able to use rust_hdl with any text editor of your choice as long as it supports LSP.

In addition, install LSP mode (language server protocol) and run the https://github.com/VHDL-LS/rust_hdl rust hdl language server, that'll give you stuff like type hints for signals and ports etc.

Would this fix the problems or just delay the rottening process?

Same with rust_hdl as LSP.

Tis is good for the compilation to make it async( otherwise it blocks) https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch it wraps around the built in make/makeprg feature. Would recommend that you dont do it with large builds/outputs.

vim-dispatch by the legend Tim Pope. send the task to the background, keep using editor. once the task is finished, it output to qflist buffer

The other answer here covers everything you need, but if you want a plugin-based solution you might be interested in vim-dispatch which runs command line tools asynchronously, and offers the option to run the command in the background instead with :Dispatch!.

You should check :h compiler :h make and :h 'errorformat'. You could also check vim dispatch, a plugin that enhances this features

Also plugin supports asynchronous execution (using terminal, jobs or vim-dispatch).

Do note that :make is blocking, and you need to wait until it finishes before it sends you back to the editor. If you want it to be asynchronouns, you can install vim-dispatch + vim-dispatch-neovim for Neovim support in vim-dispatch.

if you want something to work out of the box, is async and is already configured per language, check out TPope's dispatch

For long-running programs, like compiling, or running full test suites, or running terraform on a decently sized infrastructure project, I may run them with :Make (courtesy of tpope/vim-dispatch) so I can keep working on the project while the external program is running. If I'm in an environment without vim plugins, I may spawn a new tmux pane/window. As a last resort, I will ctrl-z/fg if I don't have tmux on the remote system (e.g. dev containers).