conjam / vim-gtkfriend

vim plugin to interact with gtkwave

GTKFriend

This plugin was motivated by the clunkiness adding signals, searching through time in order to look through wave dumps.

The main goal of this plugin was to add signals to gtkwave from vim. GTKWave doesnt support that natively, so I added the functionality I needed at https://github.com/conjam/gtkwave-rpc-fork.

This has only been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with neovim 0.5.0.

Usage (baseline)

Command	Description
:GtkOpen	Search through current directory tree, select a .vcd for GTKwave
:GtkOpen /path/to/vcd	Open the supplied vcd file with GTKWave
:GtkTime	Go to the timestamp underneath the vim cursor in GTKwave
:GtkTime timestamp	Go to the designated timestamp in GTKwave
:GtkZoomIn zoomfactor	Zoom in proportional to zoomfactor. No argument implies 2x zoom
:GtkZoomIn zoomfactor	Zoom out proportional to zoomfactor. No argument implies 2x zoom

Usage (add-signal branch only)

Command	Description
:GtkAddSignal	Add the value underneath the vim cursor in GTKwave
:GtkAddSignal signame	Add the designated value to GTKwave

If mutiple signals with the same name exist, a new buffer will open listing all conflicts. You can select the signal you want with from there.

Installation

For any version of this plugin to work, GTKWave must be configured with the following:

./configure --with-gsettings --with-gconf

Use your favourite plugin manager, only tested with vim-plug:

Plug conjam/vim-gtkfriend

If you installed gtkwave at https://github.com/conjam/gtkwave-rpc-fork, install with:

Plug conjam/vim-gtkfriend {'branch':'add-signal'}

Showcase

Demos of this plugin follow:

Moving around in time

Opening GTkWave from vim

Adding signals (add-signal branch only!)