VIP (VHDL Interface Plug-in) is a script for VIM text editor which provides some facilities to copy paste entities, components and instances of components.

For example you can copy the component :

component mux is   -- place the cursor on this line and enter the command :Viy
   port (
     INPUT  : in  std_logic_vector (15 downto 0);
     SEL    : in  std_logic;
     OUTPUT : out std_logic
   );
end component mux;

and paste it as an instance :

mux_0 : mux   -- place the cursor here and enter the command :Vii
   port map (
      INPUT   => s_INPUT,
      SEL     => s_SEL,
      OUTPUT  => s_OUTPUT
  );

VIP can :

• copy an entity and paste it as
  • an entity
  • a component
  • an instance
• copy a component and paste it as
  • an entity
  • a component
  • an instance
• copy a instance and paste it as
  • an instance (with auto-incrementation of the suffix number)

VIP tries to respect your indentation as much as possible (spaces, tabs, spaces + tabs).
It can work with many different styles of writing entities, components and instances, but not all of them. See documentation.

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For sources : VIP at Gitorious
For download : vim.org / scripts / VIP

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