verilog-ts-mode.el - SystemVerilog Tree-sitter mode for Emacs

The package verilog-ts-mode provides syntax highlighting, indentation, imenu, which-func, navigation and basic beautify and completion features.

verilog-ts-mode is derived from verilog-mode making AUTOs and other utilities still available.

Requirements

• Emacs 29.1+ with tree-sitter support
• Verilog tree-sitter grammar
  • WARNING: This package relies on the new tree-sitter-systemverilog grammar which is much more robust than the original tree-sitter-verilog

Before installing/building Emacs make sure that tree-sitter is available:

• Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install tree-sitter

• Arch:

$ sudo pacman -S tree-sitter

• Manually:

$ git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter.git
$ cd tree-sitter
$ make && sudo make install

If Emacs has been built with tree-sitter support the following command should return t:

(treesit-available-p)

Installation

MELPA

verilog-ts-mode is available on MELPA.

straight.el

To install it via straight with use-package:

(straight-use-package 'use-package)
(use-package verilog-ts-mode)

Tree-sitter grammar

The package provides an interactive command to simplify the installation of the grammar:

• M-x RET verilog-ts-install-grammar RET

This command requires Git, a C compiler and (sometimes) a C++ compiler, and the linker to be installed and on the PATH.

Once run successfully it will install the new tree-sitter-systemverilog grammar that verilog-ts-mode relies on.

At this point, the following command should return t:

(treesit-language-available-p 'verilog)

Setup

To open Verilog and SystemVerilog files with verilog-ts-mode simply add this line to your init file:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.s?vh?\\'" . verilog-ts-mode))

Syntax highlighting

To change the faces default values there are two methods:

• Via M-x customize-group RET verilog-ts-faces.

  • Customize faces and save configuration once you get the desired result

• Through elisp code

  • Below there is a snippet with a configuration example that works well with a dark background:

  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-grouping-keywords-face nil :foreground "dark olive green")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-punctuation-face nil       :foreground "burlywood")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-operator-face nil          :foreground "burlywood" :weight 'extra-bold)
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-brackets-face nil          :foreground "goldenrod")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-parenthesis-face nil       :foreground "dark goldenrod")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-curly-braces-face nil      :foreground "DarkGoldenrod2")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-port-connection-face nil   :foreground "bisque2")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-dot-name-face nil          :foreground "gray70")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-brackets-content-face nil  :foreground "yellow green")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-width-num-face nil         :foreground "chartreuse2")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-width-type-face nil        :foreground "sea green" :weight 'bold)
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-module-face nil            :foreground "green1")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-instance-face nil          :foreground "medium spring green")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-time-event-face nil        :foreground "deep sky blue" :weight 'bold)
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-time-unit-face nil         :foreground "light steel blue")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-preprocessor-face nil      :foreground "pale goldenrod")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-modport-face nil           :foreground "light blue")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-direction-face nil         :foreground "RosyBrown3")
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-translate-off-face nil     :background "gray20" :slant 'italic)
  (set-face-attribute 'verilog-ts-font-lock-attribute-face nil         :foreground "orange1")

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Just stick to common Elisp conventions and run the ERT suite after testing your changes and before submitting a new PR.

For new functionality add new ERT tests if possible.

Consider sponsoring to help maintaining the project and for the development of new features. Thank you!

ERT Tests setup

Setup

To run the whole ERT test suite change directory to the verilog-ts-mode root and make sure test-hdl Git submodule has been loaded:

git submodule update --init

Targets

Then run the default target:

$ make

To run a subset of tests (e.g. navigation):

$ make TESTS=navigation

To regenerate all the expected outputs for the tests:

$ make gen

To regenerate the expected outputs for a group of tests (e.g. navigation):

$ make gen TESTS=navigation

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• vhdl-ext: VHDL Extensions
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