Using the Electric VLSI Design System

Chapter IV: THE DISPLAY

| ## 10: Text Windows |

Certain commands cause text to appear in a window or window partition. This happens, for example, when a text-only view of a facet is edited, when SPICE model cards are edited, or when a technology is being modified in the technology editor. |

The text window uses commands that resemble traditional point-and-click text editors. You can scroll, select text, cut, copy, paste, and search. The cut-and-paste operations are done with the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands of the Edit menu. Searching is done with the Find Text... subcommand of the Special Function command of the Edit menu.

If the text window is a text-only view of a cell, and if there are other layout views of the cell also on the screen, then you can make associations between the two. Just select the name of the network in the text window and use the Show Network subcommand of the Network command of the Tools menu.

The header of the window tells its contents and how it can be closed. For example, text windows that appear in editing window partitions have no close box, so the instruction tells you to type the ESC key to deletes the window.

Note that there is no "saving" of text windows since they are editing internal data structures. Therefore every change updates the information in Electric (but the library must be saved to truly preserve changes).

The contents of a text window can be saved to disk with the Write Text Facet... command of the Facets menu to save just the text. Use Read Text Facet... to read a file into a text window.

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