Re: Which frontend?

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

I use jEdit with lp plugin on WindowsXP, I did have to go to Sun and upgrade
my java though to get it to work.  And you have to go into the options for
the lilypond plugin to set up the command launch lines as though you were
entering them at the command prompt.

The only problem with jEdit is that the editor is very slow when your lp
file goes over 10000 lines or so.  My computer is plenty fast because I
could lp compile the same 10000 lines in about 7 seconds, but it takes jEdit
about 30 seconds just to open the text file for editing.  It must do
something stupid like reading the whole file into memory instead of paging
through it based on the scroll bar.  Other than that its fine.  Java
applications generally run pretty sluggish on Windows so it was expected.

For me enduring the initial pain of learning the lp syntax and using a
simple text editor seems to be serving me better than adding another layer
of graphical abstraction between me and lp.  (this still doesn't mean that I
would not like to see a macro pre-processor though, built over lp.  Macros
would help me to shorten up my 10000 line source file by generating all this
code instead of me hand coding it via copy and paste)


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