VS Code also provide point and click. Snippets and wizards are tipical features for any other programming language in VS Code. It should not be too difficult to write them for lilypond.
I understand that it can be difficult to find the developers and mantainers to keep Frescobaldi runnig, but not so difficult to implement such features in VS Code, I believe. That would be my case, for instamve, and provably other it could be the same fornother people: I develope with VS Code and participate in other communities and I might help on developing the lilypond plugins, but I don't have enough knowledge to develope Frescobaldi. Robert On 30 d’abr. de 2024, 8:11, at 8:11, Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > >> FYI, what I like the most about Frescobaldi are: >> >> * Templates and wizards >> * Snippets >> * Point and Click selection >> * Syntax highlighting >> >> If Frescobaldi for Mac does indeed vanish, what are my alternatives >for a >> Lilypond editor? > >Syntax highlighting should be doable in Emacs, VS Code or such. Point >and click >can be arranged with various PDF viewers (see the LilyPond Usage >manual). >The other two only exist in Frescobaldi AFAIK. > >> Also, how can I help? (I'm not a programmer at all...) > > >Thanks, but you cannot really help in a way meaningful for the current >issues without programming knowledge. > >Also, for the record, Frescobaldi needs developers, but perhaps >even more importantly, it needs maintainers, i.e., people who will >not just work on a technical problem because they were told >it's important, but also proactively and autonomously respond >to GitHub issues and support questions, update the website, >figure out what parts of the code need regular maintenance like >lists of LilyPond commands and maintain them, monitor the >frescobaldi package in major Linux distros, and so on. >Unfortunately, it can be really hard to find maintainers (even for >projects that the entire world infrastructure relies on, cf. xz…). > >Best, >Jean
