Since I will be heading for my Masters in Electronics at EPFL, Lausanne a few days from now, I have been brushing up my basics needed for the course. One such activity is learning VHDL (a hardware description language). I was going through several tutorials and came across many recommendations for Emacs as the preferred editor (Yes! My eyes glittered).

Googled for VHDL emacs mode and here it was. Unfortunately, “apt-cache search vhdl mode” didn’t yield any result. I have already raised a bug report for that in Ubuntu and a Wishlist request in Fedora (I like the Electronics Laboratory spin there). As always with anything related to Emacs, the mode is very good and tremendously helpful with the syntax and other prompts.

I will take up this packaging task if I find time amidst the preparations going on for the relocation if no one else pitches in. Definitely worth having this mode in the distributions!!!