Altera Quartus, as most other EDA tools, allows users to use their favorite editor, instead of the built-in editors. For Quartus, this feature can be activated in Tools > Options > Preferred Text Editor.
When I fill in stuff in this dialog, Quartus does not store the data. The old editor is still used, and when I come back to the dialog, the default value is still there ("Quartus II Text Editor" is selected).
Have any of you encountered this? What am I doing wrong?
Best Answer
It turns out that things are stored in
${HOME}/.altera.quartus/. This directory was owned by root on my system, probably because I had executed quartus with root privileges before.I removed the directory and everything was fixed after that.