Steven Arntson <steven <at> stevenarntson.com> writes: > I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user of Lilypond, > transitioning away from Musescore. I've > been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it so far. > > However, I see there's an Emacs mode available through org-babel called > "Arrange Mode". I'm a user of Emacs (though far from an expert!), and I > love the environment. > > Does anyone have familiarity with both, who could highlight a few of the > differences? Frescobaldi has many features I doubt I'll use much (such > as the Quick Insert menu). Mainly what I like about it is the > integration of the windows--text entry, music display, lilypond > messages, and MIDI playback. I wonder if that could be done with a > dedicated Emacs instance.
I would cast my vote for Frescobaldi, actually. I went through a phase of trying to do everything in Emacs -- org-mode, e-mail (Wanderlust), LilyPond-mode, sclang-mode for SuperCollider. Now I use Emacs only for org-mode -- and by itself, that's a good enough reason to keep Emacs around. (I'm not kidding -- it's the best organizer/authoring tool I've ever seen.) For me, the thing that seals the deal in favor of Frescobaldi is its syntax-aware autocompletion. It's pretty good at hiding completion options that are not appropriate in that location -- good enough that, if I expect a completion menu and one doesn't appear, that's often a red flag to recheck the syntax. LilyPond-mode may have grown since I stopped using it, but at the time, its completion tables left out a lot of valuable keywords, and it provides basically no on-the-fly assistance with syntax. Plus, the integrated PDF viewer with point-and-click to jump to the bit of code responsible for a glyph, and which also highlights the glyph coming from the text cursor's location, saves HOURS of navigation time. Really, seriously. My opinion is that Emacs-purity isn't worth losing the conveniences of Frescobaldi. hjh _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
