Re: Context - A recommendable Windows-Editor for Lilypond

[Uli Heller]

Hello Jan,

Jan Nieuwenhuizen schrieb:
> Have you actually tried a recent version of Emacs lately?  What things
> do you find complicated?

No, I haven't tried any version of Emacs. But I read about it. Emacs may 
be a powerful editor of course, but when you start first with it, you 
have to study tutorials and read many other helps. Emacs has many own 
commands and very less commands who are windows-conform. All this 
specific commands you have to drill in your head, there is no graphical 
menü (when I am right). An introduction (in german language) I found at

http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/doc/emacs/emacsintro.html

There you read that you cannot delete a written character with the 
"backspace"-key. An old typewriter could do that and every other editor 
around me does that. I don't want to miss this and such similarly features.

Context has menus and you can take shortcuts as well. The commands are 
conform for windows-users (File open, close, cut and paste, delete and 
so on). Context is small and quick. I think context has all you need to 
handle with lilypond. IF you know Emacs it is alright when you use it. 
But can Emacs switch with one shortcut to the PDF- and with another 
shortcut to the midi-file without saving and leaving the source code 
(like context can)?

I began to write a context-highlighter for lilypond source code. (You 
can choose 5 different colors for better reading special commands). It 
works well. But I am new in lilypond and only a few commands I have 
manually picked up to now. If somebody is interested, I can post the 
highlighter file here (as a text-file and as it is at the moment).



martial wrote:
> I am blind  or utf-8 is not supported

Hello martial,

Context supports UTF8, see it's homepage:
http://context.cx/content/view/18/41/

Yours sincerely

Uli