Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Nick Payne
On 03/01/10 04:43, James Lowe wrote: I'll take a slight issue with this. Tim Slattery wrote: "Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor. Written by somebody at Lanca

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Tim Slattery writes "Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor. Written by somebody at Lancaster Uni iirc. Yes, good stuff, and I used it for a long ti

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread James Lowe
I'll take a slight issue with this. Tim Slattery wrote: "Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple nice editor. Written by somebody at Lancaster Uni iirc. Yes, good stuff, and

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Tim Slattery
"Anthony W. Youngman" wrote: >My favourite editor is PFE (programmers file editor). >Unfortunately, last I know, it was abandonware, but it's still a simple >nice editor. Written by somebody at Lancaster Uni iirc. Yes, good stuff, and I used it for a long time. Unfortunately, it doesn't know a

Re: simple editor for windows

2010-01-02 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <8c1eed9b0912160008v6b676a9fida41a99a8f72f...@mail.gmail.com>, Stefan Thomas writes Responding very late ... Dear community, I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer in my music-school. It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires ja

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Notepad can deal with UTF-8, also in XP, but it has the (bad?) habit of adding a BOM at the beginning, which confuses every other software that is not a text editor. Also, I believe to remember that it produces utf16 (always two bytes per character). I just tr

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-21 Thread aliteralmind
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Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-21 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Well, it's good to see that there is at least the sFTP support sells jEdit even if the LilyPondTool plugin is not worth for downloading that. :) Bert Aaron Dalton wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Ralph, thanks for Your hint. I've downloaded Textpad. It works well, but un

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Dalton
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Ralph, thanks for Your hint. I've downloaded Textpad. It works well, but unfortunately I couldn't get syntax-highlighting with it. Isn't it available? 2009/12/16 Ralph Palmer Stefan - I have been using ConTEXT on my Win XP machine. I

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear Ralph, thanks for Your hint. I've downloaded Textpad. It works well, but unfortunately I couldn't get syntax-highlighting with it. Isn't it available? 2009/12/16 Ralph Palmer > Stefan - > > I have been using ConTEXT on my Win XP machine. It's freeware, and has > Lilypond highlighting. I've

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread bhaaluu
Dear Stefan, Familiarity is the keyword when it comes to text editors. They shouldn't have to climb a steep learning curve for a text editor in addition to learning all the nuances for lilypond. Encourage them to use the text editor that they are familiar with. After all, 'simple' means a plain te

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Hugh Myers
Given what is out there in open source land for MFC capable programmers, I have to admit to the DIY vice myself. However when I wake up and realize that I don't particularly want to be 'there', I'm thankful for the editor I use most--- EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/index.html It has everything I

RE: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Ed Ardzinski
All interesting comments - way back when I first encountered Lilypond (3 years ago or so?) I just decided to write my own editor and stuff it full of commands to enter code fragments I find useful (and some other things - open Acrobat Reader, call LP on a file, a few other things). Every few m

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: > 2009/12/16 Stefan Thomas : > > I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the > > computer in my music-school. > > It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't > > work on it. > > On my WinX

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Ralph Palmer
Stefan - I have been using ConTEXT on my Win XP machine. It's freeware, and has Lilypond highlighting. I've been very happy with it. It's simple and kind, but has formatting not normally available in NotePad. Check it out at: http://www.contexteditor.org Ralph On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:08 AM, S

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/12/16 keith Luke : > I use plain old notepad in my Windows PC.  You can only save as text > file.  Do a File/Save As and let Notepad default to Text Documents > (*.txt) for the Save as option.  All you have to do is type in > filename.ly and it will be saved as filename.ly. > You won't have to

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op woensdag 16 december 2009 schreef Stefan: > I have the problem, that it shows the whole file (that I've written with > Frescobaldi) in one line. You can direct Frescobaldi to save files with DOS line-endings (CR+LF) by setting Tools->Line Endings to "Windows/DOS" :) best regards, Wilbert B

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread James Lowe
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I guess your Notepad problem is due to Unix line endings. AFAIK Notepad still can't cope with UTF-8 (and you'll need that encoding for umlauts etc.) As far as I can tell wordpad does support UTF-8, at least in Vista and Win7. (I write my LilyPond files in Smultron o

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Nick Payne
On 16/12/09 19:08, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer in my music-school. It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't work on it. Vim and emacs would be too complicated for my dear colleag

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2009/12/16 Stefan Thomas : > I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer > in my music-school. > It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't > work on it. On my WinXP installation in a VM I use Notepad++, it's fast enough and a good progr

Re: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread keith Luke
Original Message- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of > Stefan Thomas > Sent: Wed 16/12/2009 8:08 > To: lilypond-user > Subject: simple editor for windows > > Dear community, > I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. I

RE: simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread James Lowe
homas Sent: Wed 16/12/2009 8:08 To: lilypond-user Subject: simple editor for windows Dear community, I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer in my music-school. It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't work on it. Vim an

simple editor for windows

2009-12-16 Thread Stefan Thomas
Dear community, I'm searching for a simple text-editor for windows. It is for the computer in my music-school. It is an old machine and lilypondtool, because it requires java, doesn't work on it. Vim and emacs would be too complicated for my dear colleagues. And with the very simple editor that com