Re: Configuration Point & Click

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mar 29 gen 2019 alle 22:21, foxfanfare <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> Hi fellow lilyponders!
>
> I would have need some of your help understanding how the Point & 
> Click
> option works. I switched from Windows to Linux some weeks ago (please 
> be
> gentle with me, I'm still a noob in this world!) and I'm trying to 
> set-up a
> minimalist desktop. I've installed ArchLinux and configured already 
> some
> basic things and I am trying now to set up all my LilyPond 
> workstation.
>
> What I can do: I can edit my lilypond file with vim (my main editor),
> compile it with a shortcut, see at the same time the PDF in another 
> window
> (I've choosen Zathura) which is updated automatically.
>
> What I can't do: set-up the point & click!
>
> I'm sorry, I read the documentation several times, tried a lot of 
> things,
> but I have to admit that I can't figure how this works by myself... 
> Is there
> by any chance someone using a similar configuration who could help me?
>
> What I think I've understood so far:
> -LP generate a PDF with URL links which start with textedit:///...
> - I should set-up zathura to open those links with 
> lilypond-invoke-editor
> (... I didn't found how yet...)
> -lilpypond-invoke-editor should interract properly with vim.
>
> Right now, when I click on the PDF link, the textedit:///... link 
> goes to
> firefox, and I get a message in my vim file at the same time saying
> "/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: x-www-browser: commande introuvable"
> And when I type in the console lilypond-invoke-editor following with 
> the
> textedit link, it opens correctly the vim file, but the cursor isn't 
> at the
> good position...
>
> To make a long story short, I'm lost here!

Hi

I have a blog post draft (since some months...) for lilypondblog.org on 
this subject. It's not released yet because I had some troubles 
configuring Windows and especially Mac. Hopefully I'll finalize it next 
week (the last famous words...).

You have two problems:

1. lilypond-invoke-editor doesn't open the correct position because you 
did not set the correct vim command in your .bashrc, that is:

export LYEDITOR="vim '+call cursor(%(line)s, %(column)s)'"

This command may be added to LilyPond _in the future_ and then you will 
be able to simply set vim:

export LYEDITOR=vim


2. xdg-open error
Configuring Linux should be easy and it's explained in the docs.
Which desktop environment are you using in Arch?
You'll probably have to follow the instructions for GNOME 3.. which I 
guess it should work for any Freedesktop.org desktop environment, but I 
didn't check.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click#using-gnome-3-for-point-and-click