on 2008-07-14 at 23:20 Trevor Daniels wrote: >> Non-command-line people should be using jedit anyway > >No I shouldn't. I have a text editing environment that has all the >features I need for editing all my text files, and I have no intention >of learning to use another just so I can turn off point and click. It >is silly to suggest it.
thank you, trevor, i was afraid no-one would speak with the voice of reason... :-) now, seriously, i agree with trevor that it's not the right approach to say that we should all use editor X, or that we should restrain ourselves from suggesting possible improvements to the lilypond syntax because you can do that with tool Y. i'm a newcomer to LP, but i'll voice my opinion anyway: i'm all for adding more predefined commands and functions to the language, like we already have \stemUp and \stemDown, \autoBeamOff an On, \slurUp and Down, etc. this point and click thing in particular worries me little, after all it's something we use just once in the score. but there are many commands that we use very often, and i suspect most of us have one or more include files with lots of them predefined. i for one think that it would be a good thing if more of them were - judiciously - included in the LP syntax. having said that, i _did_ use lilypondtool, and it's really impressive, congratulations to the author and thank you for developing such a great tool. i even use it for short snippets when i want to test a tricky tweak. but no, i wouldn't use it regularly, i use vim and i won't change it. i seriously doubt that any user of vim (or emacs, or any other "power editor") would change. best, lj PS. the "judiciously" part is a jest... _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
