How to open a window in Vivado using Tcl script?

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I'd like to open a .vhd and .vhi file in window for editing in Vivado from Tcl Console, but I can't find any command for that.

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As of at least Vivado 2014.2 any unrecognized Tcl command will be sent to the OS shell for execution, so you can simply open whatever editor you like as if you were not in the Tcl shell. It basically automatically runs exec for you. Older versions you may have to run exec yourself.

eg

nedit file.vhd

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Vivado being a design tool works on projects instead of individual files. So to edit a file, say xyz.vhd, the file needs to be part of a project. This can be done through Tcl console by creating a new project, adding xyz.vhd file to it and then loading the project.

  1. Create a new project using the following command:

    project -new

  2. Add files:

    add_file -vhd "xyz.vhd"

  3. Save the project and run.

    project -save
project -run

You can find further resources at this link.