Re: mac osx point and click editor

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Sean Reed wrote:
> Does anybody know how to change the text editor application that is 
> opened when you point-and-click on a .pdf file of a lilypond score in 
> MacOSX 10.4.6?
>
> Is that even possible?
>
> In chapter 12.7 of the current manual (2.9.3) it says 
> lilypond-invoke-editor tests the environment variable for EDITOR.
> I first changed the EDITOR in my .profile, but clicking on a note in the 
> .pdf image still opened the appropriate .ly file with the LilyPond.app.
>
> I then followed the directions in a rather old link from the apple 
> developers website to create a .MacOSX folder and an environment.plist, 
> and in that I put:
> <key>EDITOR</key>
> <string>the/path/to/my/other/text/application/</string>
>
> ...and logged out and back in.
> Clicking on a note in the pdf image still opened the appropriate .ly 
> file with LilyPond.app.
>
> I have nothing against the LilyPond.app, but I do most of my texts with 
> TextWrangler, including my lilypond scores, and I thought it would be 
> convenient to have the point-and-click open the appropriate files again 
> right into that editor.
>
> I'd be very grateful for any clues.

On MacOS X, it doesn't work like that. The application is registered via 
CFBundleURLTypes entries in the Info.plist file. The process involves 
some AppleScript magic which I cut & pasted from some newsgroup 
postings.  I could add a sponsorerd feature for this, but it will take 
me some effort (for which I have to charge.)  It might be more efficient 
to talk to Ed Baskerville and have him add something to his lilypad 
application.

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