Mac lilypond textditor enhancements

[Sean Reed]

Hi Han-Wen,

I've been spending time recently looking for the most efficient and helpful text editor combinations for my lilypond work.

I use a Mac PPC with 10.4.7.

My primary interests in a text editor are line-numbers (to be able to find things when I've made typing errors in my files), something that opens in conjunction with point-and-click, perhaps syntax highlighting, and maybe a choice of which font I use.

The current text editor that comes with the LilyPond.app doesn't do those things (you can change the fonts while working on the files, but they're gone again when you save and reopen them), and as we briefly discussed in a mail a while back, I can't change a setting somewhere that allows me to select which text program is opened when I click on a PDF of my lilypond scores.

I would be willing to sponsor an extension of the current features if you had the time and interest in adding them.

I currently use TextWrangler for my lilypond files, which allows me the line numbering and minimal syntax highlighting (I have the display read the ly files with LaTeX syn-highlighting and it gives me all I need since the commands are all also preceded backslashes).

Either option would be fine for me: the choice of which editor (some people could then choose emacs, perhaps) or an extension of the current included text editor for the LilyPond.app.

Would you be willing to work on adding such features (feature), and if so, what might it cost?

Thanks,

Sean

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Sean Reed

Hamburg, Germany

www.seanreed.de