Me too. I tried them both. ConText and the Lily highlighter worked fine straight out of the box (although I needed to make it case sensitive to correctly pick up the keywords) and I find it suits my style of working very well - usually with lots of files open; I failed to get jEdit to work even half right under MS XP and I've now deleted it.
Trevor > > Geoff Horton wrote: > > > >> Often one can gain productivity by fitting his > way of work to the editor > >> :-) > >> > >> Bert > > > > Sometimes, yes. Often ... I don't know about > that, and I'm not really > > a fan of the idea. Tools exist for me; I don't > exist for tools. > > > > I don't mean to discourage anyone from trying > jEdit. I did. I prefer > > something else. YMMV :) > > > > Geoff > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > lilypond-user@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > On Windows XP I gave jEdit a try, then I switched > to Context. The main > issues I had with jEdit on Windows is that it > would not install unless I > went to IBM or SUN microsystems web site to > install some other stuff first > as I recall. Then forums suggested I needed > something called cygwin, big > mistake there, after I installed that my machine > was never the same, more > sluggish. After I got jEdit finally working it > kept locking up whenever I > tried to open too many files simultaneously. > Also if I opened a text file > that was over say 2 meg or so, it would try to > parse ending brackets for the > WHOLE file, instead of just showing me the page I > was on, and it typically > took about 5 minutes to open these large files > and 15 seconds for the > PageUp/Down keys to work. With Context I've had > several dozen files open > simultaneously in its tabbed folders and my large > files also open > immediately. But I'm not sure of the future of > Context either because it's > author only makes updates once a year or so, but > for now I'm productive with > it. > > jEdit had a lot going for it functionality-wise, > but it needs some work > performance-wise and installation-wise for > Windows machines from my > experiences, maybe others like it on Windows but > for me it did not work out. > I think it sould be changed to install all of > it's own dependencies itself, > so at least users can begin using it immediately. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/lilypond-and-editors-tf27346 13.html#a7760420 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
