ISE launches external editor failed

[glissssbqwe]

I'm trying to use an external editor for ISE, but I got the message

ERROR: launching custom editor subl failed: forked process couldn't set up input/output: bad file number

And I found the parameter $2 which was supposed to be the line number was actually a constant "1".

Anybody knows the solution?

P.S: I'm using ISE 14.4 under ubuntu 64.

[athandr]

Hello,

P.S: I'm using ISE 14.4 under ubuntu 64.

That is the problem here. Ubuntu is an unsupported OS for Xilinx ISE tools. So there are cases where you can see such problems. Better to move to a supported OS RHEL, Windows etc which should help you on this. This sure is an environment problem. Check the release note for the respective ISE for the supported Operating systems.

Thanks,

[athandr]

Hi,

Is your query resolved. Were you able to get rid of this error in a supported operating system.

[vuppala]

Hi,

Did you edit the settings under the menu Edit --> Preferences --> ISE General --> Editors.
See the following answer record: http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/13713.htm

Thanks

[mwxilchip]

try the following workaround append "> /dev/null < /dev/null" to the editor cmd (linux only) for emacs : emacs +$2 $1 > /dev/null < /dev/null works fine for me found this workaround here http://computer-programming-forum.com/57-tcl/76c2ba0faab8eca8.htm

[mac1304]

Thanks, 

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@mwxilchip wrote:
try the following workaround append "> /dev/null < /dev/null" to the editor cmd (linux only) for emacs : emacs +$2 $1 > /dev/null < /dev/null works fine for me found this workaround here http://computer-programming-forum.com/57-tcl/76c2ba0faab8eca8.htm

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This is the answer. This forum will benefit more with this type of answers which improve community empathy than with "your OS is not supported" kind of formality. Ubuntu is not a minor distribution a we're not lawyers. Keep that in mind