PSPad: a Lily-friendly editor for Windows

[madhg]

I used to use Crimson for writing lilypond.  Excellent for small projects,
less convenient for a large project with one main file to be compiled and
several other files contaning the music for individual staves.

I can now recommend another editor, PSPad, which like Crimson is a general
programmer's editor and useful for Lilypond.

 * freeware

 * supports compilation, viewing compiler output, and parsing the output to
jump to a line in the source file which produces an error or warning

 * [This is what made me move from Crimson to PSPad]  supports projects in
which you can specify a "Main file", so that when you press the button to
compile, lilypond is run on the main file that you have specified, even if
you are currently working on a different file (for instance, if you have the
music for different staves held in individual files)

 * support for UTF-8, so accented characters are handled easily

 * syntax highlighting; I attach a PSPad highlighter file for lilypond

 * configurable keyboard shortcuts, so you can set up keys for compiling,
and for viewing the result in GSView or other viewers.

PSPad is Windows only, available from  http://www.pspad.com/

There are many editors, and I don't want to start an argument about whether
X is better than Y.  Just to point interested users to one that has a
broadly similar style to Crimson but has an extra feature that saves me a
lot of trouble.  And is freeware.

David Griffel

http://www.nabble.com/file/p11462658/Lilypond.INI Lilypond.INI 
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