mdj wrote:

> On the upside, much of the toolchain is UI over command tools so you
> can for example, use Emacs to edit your VHDL ;-)

Ditto for Quartus! Not that I do normally, but I have written some simple 
scripts that do analysis & synthesis on my entire PACE source tree so I can 
check what I've broken when modifying common code...

Regards,

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